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“I am a refugee, an asylum-seeker. These are not simple words, even if habit of hearing them makes them seem so.”
― By the Sea
― By the Sea
“Their eyes searched silently for any sign of life, waiting for some flock of egrets to slingshot out from the bushes, waiting for a single mulletfish to brush the river’s crest, even hoping for a distant whiff of cow dung. Even shit has life in it, after all.”
― Hungry Ghosts
― Hungry Ghosts
“The train slowed down at the approach to shrewsbury station and glided between the eleventh-century abbey and the stadium of shrewsbury town football club. Two sacred arenas where men chanted and waited for a miracle that never came.”
― The Unbearable Lightness Of Being In Aberystwyth
― The Unbearable Lightness Of Being In Aberystwyth
“You've got to face facts and the fact is life is a joke, a fucking bad joke, or, no, a bad fucking joke. There's no point taking it seriously because whatever happens, and I mean whatever the fuck, the punch line is the same: you go out horizontally. You see the point? No fucking point.”
― Narcopolis
― Narcopolis
“The more he drank the nicer he became; wine revealed his charity.”
― The Book of Chocolate Saints
― The Book of Chocolate Saints
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