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David Hadley was born in 1959. He is married with three children and lives in the Black Country, UK.

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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

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“Road to hell paved in unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.”
― Susan Sontag

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“These fragments I have shored against my ruins”
― T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems

tags: age, aging, fall, nostalgia, past

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“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
― Ernest Benn

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