Marina Pavlichenko
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“To pause one’s life for another was a profound gesture of caring. What greater gift can one give another person but time?”
― The 5th Gender
― The 5th Gender
“There are two things I hate above all else: trying on bathing suits and job hunting.”
― Gone to Pot
― Gone to Pot
“The power of the spoken word is the ultimate power, for it can fend off war, preserve the peace, make friends out of enemies, and lovers out of strangers.”
― Lingua Galactica
― Lingua Galactica
“I read everything, both serious and funny. Dickens, Thackeray, Rider Haggard, PG Wodehouse, Chinua Achebe, and the endless wailing of Virginia Woolf, thin terrible books where nothing happened.”
― My Cleaner
― My Cleaner
“You know, I grew up down here, and my mama always took me to church when I was a kid. But the church folk you got down here now - especially the white church folk - they scare the bejesus out of me."
"Why is that?"
"Because they're all nuts, Harry. Every damned one of them.”
― The Dead Detective
"Why is that?"
"Because they're all nuts, Harry. Every damned one of them.”
― The Dead Detective
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