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“The owner of the Post Office was called Maurice. A sixtyish-year-old with a large red nose that was pebble-dashed with broken capillaries, and a smooth bald head with a fuzz of grey hair around the side like the tide mark on a dirty bath. He had a gruff manner, distrusting eyes and a cough like kicked gravel.”
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“If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.”
― Around the World in 80 Days
― Around the World in 80 Days
“Brackets come in various shapes, types and names:
1 round brackets (which we call brackets, and the Americans call parentheses)
2 square brackets [which we call square brackets, and the Americans call brackets]”
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
1 round brackets (which we call brackets, and the Americans call parentheses)
2 square brackets [which we call square brackets, and the Americans call brackets]”
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
“Non avevo mai considerato Marley come un modello da seguire, ma seduto lì a bere la mia birra, pensavo che forse custodiva il segreto di una buona vita. Mai rallentare, mai guardare indietro, vivere ogni giorno con brio giovanile, coraggio, curiosità e giocosità. Se pensi di essere ancora giovane, magari lo sei, indipendentemente da quel che dice il calendario. Non una cattiva filosofia di vita, anche se preferisco sorvolare sulla parte che implicava devastazione di divani e lavanderie.”
― Io & Marley
― Io & Marley
“Mary Miracle would always recall with clarity the moment she decided to kill her husband.”
― Killing Johnny Miracle
― Killing Johnny Miracle
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