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Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

by Patricia Evangelista

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

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