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She’s the person that our septuagenarian branch manager, Harvey, deploys whenever a difficult patron needs a firm hand. My first shift working alongside her, a middle-aged guy with a wad of dip in his cheek walked up, stared at her boobs,
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“Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.”
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“Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost.”
― The art of fiction
― The art of fiction
“Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”
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“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
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