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A Sketchy Business: Blutspuren (German Edition)

by Vicky Blum (Goodreads Author)

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Magnus Knut Hansen

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Beta’s Quotes

“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

tags: egotism, zaphod-beeblebrox

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“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, mankind, people

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“I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.”
― Jim Butcher, Cold Days

tags: cold-days, harry-dresden, terry-pratchett

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“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg

tags: be-yourself, self-expression

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“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: change

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