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“things will never be as good as we hoped or as bad as we feared.”
― Lessons
― Lessons
“Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.”
― Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life
― Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life
“Antibiotics’ll clear it up.’ ‘They tend not to work with drink taken.’ ‘They’re drugs, they’re not fucking Irishmen.”
― Joe Country
― Joe Country
“Each day you wake up alive, you are the victor; go claim your spoils”
― Quicksand
― Quicksand
“Race don’t come into it. They keep us fighting among ourselves like dogs for table scraps so we won’t catch them making off with the feast.”
― Small Mercies
― Small Mercies
The Patrick Hamilton Appreciation Society
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A place where readers can come to discuss the life and work of the English writer Patrick Hamilton, and similar or associated writers. You will also f ...more
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