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suspect that, like many others, I achieved my annual quota of dystopias and horror stories simply by making the unfortunate choice of being awake during much of 2025.
“You expect me to get on a helicopter? I don’t do helicopters. I weigh too much, and I know too much about gravity.”
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“A war is a very serious gig indeed, and not one for which I am prepared, either mentally or pharmaceutically. Journalists who follow such things are another breed, another species altogether, lantern-eyed with long sleepless nights of shelling, their postures permanently altered by the weight of their combat armor. They speak a language all their own, intelligible only to others of their species, and they are a dying breed. Today, bereft of even the tiniest civil disturbance to cover, they have begun to fight each other in bloody hand-to-hand combat, one-on-one, with teeth and fingernails, like psychopathic lemmings bent on the annihilation of their species”
― Now Wash Your Hands
― Now Wash Your Hands
“calm. It was wonderful to watch a woman, faced with a completely drunk son turning up with an even drunker, jet-lagged and raving stranger, just fatalistically accepting it.”
― Now Wash Your Hands
― Now Wash Your Hands
“Psychologists claim there is hardly anyone, anyone with a modicum of logic in a brain-pan, who cannot eventually see the light of reason. Maybe.”
― Cue For Quiet
― Cue For Quiet
“For lo, it was established from the Ages that when-so-ever the bloody 'orse hath gone, even so shall they then and only then locketh the stable door.”
― Ice, Iron and Gold
― Ice, Iron and Gold
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