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The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

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Oct 04, 2013 08:07PM

“...the thought crossed her mind that a bed was really a very strange thing-a human nest, really, where our human fragility made its nightly demands for comfort and cosseting”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Careful Use of Compliments

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“He looked at her in the darkness, at this woman who was everything to him-mother, Africa, wisdom, understanding, good things to eat, pumpkins, chicken, the white sky across the endless, endless bush, and the giraffe that cried, giving its tears for women to daub on their baskets; O Botswana, my country, my place.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

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