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‘What did you do during the war?’ ‘We turned one pound into ten’

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« je ferais mieux de pas vider la dorade tout de suite pour que le sang reste dans la viande, pensa-t-il. Je la viderai un peu plus tard, quand j’attacherai les avirons pour faire frein. C’est pas la peine d’embêter mon poisson maintenant. Le soleil se couche. Quand le soleil se couche, les poissons s’énervent. C’est connu. »

« Poisson, dit-il, je t’aime bien. Et je te respecte. Je te respecte beaucoup. Mais j’aurai ta peau avant la fin de la journée. »

This book is supposed to be self help disguised as a work of fiction but is really just one big pep talk, littered with inspirational quotes, very poorly interwoven in the most sloppy narrative I have ever read. The content would be more impactful had it remained true to its non fiction self help genre and not tried so hard to be the Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist.

“My mother said to me, if you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the pope. Instead, I was a painter. And became Picasso.”