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but rain and religion had left the people a twinned philosophy of offering it up and getting on with it.
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
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“This is a foul thing that shouldn’t be allowed to exist. No firearms should exist. The fact that they are still made and that all sorts of people have them lying about in drawers or carry them around in the street just shows that the whole system is perverted and crazy. Some bastard makes a fat profit by making and selling arms, just the way other people make a fat profit on factories that make narcotics and deadly pills. Do you get it?”
― The Laughing Policeman
― The Laughing Policeman
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― The Camel Club
― The Camel Club
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