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‘For God’s sake,’ snapped Professor Lovell. ‘She was only just a woman.’
“Being born's a hell of a lottery.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
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“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Up north, those men are pulling off arson, they’re stoning building owners, they’re throwing acid on factory managers. They can’t seem to stop smashing looms in Lancashire.”
― Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
― Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
“And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
― Babel
― Babel
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