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Ivan is Currently Reading

Ivan Zullo is currently reading

Short History of London

by Simon Jenkins

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Jan 27, 2026 11:29AM

“The accent of the Peaky Blinders characters may have been more realistic, but as a result it didn’t sound much like the Brummie stereotype at all,”
― David Crystal, Ben Crystal, You Say Potato: The Story of English Accents

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“We got some beer and some cheap wine and rented a room at a rundown motel and stayed up most of the night telling lies and a few sad truths that we hoped the other would think were lies.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, Savage Season

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“If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing?”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

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“Either we die here in the snow or we die fighting. I prefer the hard way.”
― Michael Curtis Ford, The Ten Thousand: A Novel of Ancient Greece

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“you can live somewhere for years, and your neighbours will only ever hear you as a newcomer, but go home and your friends say, Oh you’ ve got such an accent . . . But”
― Ben Crystal, You Say Potato: The Story of English Accents

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