Marina Pavlichenko
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“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
“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
“He is notoriously difficult to understand both because of his strong accent and dialect, and because he has no teeth. Today he told me about a woman whose garden he works in once a week. According to Jock, she is not a very good driver because of her poor vision. "She got carrots in her eyes.”
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“A parent must do two things: teach the child a way to earn a living, and to swim.”
― 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
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