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“There will be craft beer, brewed by my flatmate on the balcony of our Penge new-build. The Death of Hackney tastes like a sort of fizzy Marmite and smells like a urinary tract infection and is yours for £13 a bottle. Enjoy.”
― Everything I Know About Love
― Everything I Know About Love
“I’m interested in knowing the secrets that connect human beings. At the very deepest level, all our secrets are the same.”
― Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
― Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
“Screw you, Hilo,” she snapped. “I can kill my ex-boyfriends myself.”
― Jade City
― Jade City
“one of the smartest ways to write fiction today is to say that you’re not, and then to do whatever you very well please. Fiction writers, take note. Some of the best fiction is now being written as nonfiction.”
― Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
― Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
“The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it”—so”
― Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
― Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
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