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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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“There is an innocence in the very word "afternoon." Morning is for trains and business and hangovers, night is for love and burglary. The afternoon is the halcyon, the calm between earnestness and drama.”
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“I didn’t know you were interested in politics,’ I said. ‘I’m not,’ he said. ‘But isn’t that how Hitler got elected in the first place: too many people who didn’t give a shit who was running the country?”
― Berlin Noir: March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German Requiem
― Berlin Noir: March Violets / The Pale Criminal / A German Requiem
“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
“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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