Marina Pavlichenko
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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
“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
“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
“I'm gonna cry all over your hair.”
― Burn This
― Burn This
“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
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