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Allen Garvin

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Il senso del dolore. L'inverno del commissario Ricciardi

by Maurizio de Giovanni

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Tutti pazzi per Rita: La mia vita, i miei sogni, la mia voglia di cantare (Italian Edition)

by Rita Pavone

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The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000 (The Penguin History of Europe Book 2)

by Chris Wickham

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Allen’s Quotes

“Is it not strange that sheep's guts could hail souls out of men's bodies?”
― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

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“And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised from our adult vocabularies. These words are the pornography of innocence, words which adults no longer use with other adults, and so we laugh at them and consign them to the nursery, fear masking as cynicism. These are the words that were forged in the earth, air, fire, and water of human existence, and the words are:

Love. Hate. Good. Evil. Courage. Honor. Truth.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

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