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Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

by Mick Herron

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― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

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“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

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“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

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“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
― Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard's Egg

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