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
“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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“There are two things I hate above all else: trying on bathing suits and job hunting.”
― Gone to Pot
― Gone to Pot
“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
“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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