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“So,” he throttled shift knob into fifth gear half a block from a stop sign, “you’re from Great Britain.”
“Yes. England. The North. Sheffield.”
“Why you guys drive on the left?”
“Obviously, because it’s right.”
“I’m being serious.”
“Are you?”
“I’m askin, aren’t I?”
“I don’t know. Tradition, I suppose.”
“That’s a dumb-ass reason.”
“Then perhaps you should start driving on the left.”
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“Yes. England. The North. Sheffield.”
“Why you guys drive on the left?”
“Obviously, because it’s right.”
“I’m being serious.”
“Are you?”
“I’m askin, aren’t I?”
“I don’t know. Tradition, I suppose.”
“That’s a dumb-ass reason.”
“Then perhaps you should start driving on the left.”
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“My bookshelves were groaning with WW2 books, Hitler's baleful eyes staring out at me from covers and spines for any new visitor (or passing burglar) to wonder if I might be a fan or at least mildly obsessed.”
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“Here the past was everywhere, an entire continent sown with memories.”
― A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France
― A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France
“I saw an infinity of forgotten details dancing across history's dizzying expanse.”
― A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France
― A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France
“the remark of a Middlesex Regiment officer in 1918. “Intelligence services,” the man had said, “are prone to looking up their own arses and wondering why it’s dark.”
― Zoo Station
― Zoo Station
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