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Shpriken
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The way I see it, the truth is just barren moorland, all useless bog and heather. It’s only when you break it up and turn it over with the ploughshare of the Good Lie that you can screw a livelihood out of it. Isn’t that what humans do?
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“Bloody doctor hadn’t got there yet; if he’d been there, I’d have smashed his face in for not being there yet—which is how your mind works when you’re in that sort of a state.”
― Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
― Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
“If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
― The Wee Free Men
― The Wee Free Men
“In Paris you had to be ready to fight art and the Hellish—not to mention Nazis—so they labored under weapons for all eventualities.”
― The Last Days of New Paris
― The Last Days of New Paris
“Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got.”
― Best Served Cold
― Best Served Cold
“He never makes notes, he just remembers it all, like a barmaid.”
― Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
― Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
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