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Die Känguru-Rebellion (Die Känguru-Chroniken, #5)

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The Best of Michael Marshall Smith

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"'Author of the Death'. Wow. Just wow. I'm awe-struck and laughing out loud at the same time. What a great concept - and more important: what an excellent execution! A gem. Especially for everyone who knows a bit about writing techniques." — Dec 18, 2022 12:04PM

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“Death is a guillotine blade hanging over our heads, reminding us every second of every day that this life we treasure so much is no more important to the universe than those of the two hundred thousand insects each of us kills with the front of our car every year.”
― Neil Strauss, Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life

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“I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.”
― Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War

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“The first person we saw when we entered the building was Muhammad Ali, perhaps a perfect symbol for the decade to come - a former powerhouse battling a degenerative disease.”
― Neil Strauss, Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life

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“Our Society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just a temporary resting place, a hotel our civilization checked into a couple hundred years ago and must one day check out of. It's an inevitability tourists can't help but realize when visiting Mayan ruins, Egyptian ruins, Roman ruins. How long will it be before someone is visiting American ruins?”
― Neil Strauss, Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life

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“The truth was, she hadn't felt much like a cop in a long time. That was a place she never thought she'd get to. Be just like the rest of them after ten years. Angry and drunk. Numb to pretty much everything. That wasn't supposed to be her. But she now knew what they all knew: that the very thing you need to stay strong and keep your head, that daily and deliberate apathy you practice like meditation, is the very thing that, in the end, robs you of your desire to get in the car and catch bad guys. Nobody tells you that, once you put on the armor, you can never take it off.”
― Scott Frank

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