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	The Dead Rabbit Drinks Manual: Secret Recipes and Barroom Tales from Two Belfast Boys Who Conquered the Cocktail World by Sean Muldoon, Jack McGarry, Ben Schaffer (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 295 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“All my life I’ve wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.”
― Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

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“I had wanted to be amazing. I wanted to be so amazing. I had already been amazing up to a certain point. I wanted to go past that point. I wanted to be more amazing than I had been up to that point. I wanted to do something which went beyond that point and which went beyond every other point and which people would look at and say that this was something which went beyond all other points and which no other boy would ever be able to go beyond, that I was the only boy who could, that I was the only one.”
― Gordon Lish, What I Know So Far: Stories

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