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“Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)”

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Mark Billingham, born on July 2, 1961, is a renowned British novelist, known for his crime fiction novels that captivate readers with their unique narrative style and engaging plots. more

“Cormoran Strike is an amazing creation and I can't wait for his next outing. Strike is so instantly compelling that it's hard to believe this is a debut novel. I hope there are plenty more Cormoran Strike adventures to come. A beautifully written debut novel introducing one of the most unique and compelling detectives I've come across in years.”

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Author:Mark Billingham

“Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis seventeen times in a row.”

Beats Seventeen

Author:Vitas Gerulaitis

“The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English, the French and the Russian -- all took place in societies where the rate of literacy was approaching 50 per cent. Literacy had a profound effect on the peasant mind and community. It promotes abstract thought and enables the peasant to master new skills and technologies, Which in turn helps him to accept the concept of progress that fuels change in the modern world.”

“On the news that the Tsar had sent the troops icons to boost their morals, General Dragomirov quipped: 'The Japanese are beating us with machine-guns, but never mind: we'll beat them with icons.”

Mind Moral News Beats Gun Machines Troops Icons Boost Machine Guns

Author:Orlando Figes

“We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to THEE, O SIRE to seek justice and protection. We are impoverished; we are oppressed, overburdened with excessive toil, contemptuously treated . . . We are suffocating in despotism and lawlessness. O SIRE we have no strength left, and our endurance is at an end. We have reached that frightful moment when death is better than the prolongation of our unbearable sufferings. . .”

“Most of the people buying the Soviet paraphernalia were Americans and West Europeans. All would be sickened by the thought of wearing a swastika. None objected, however, to wearing the hammer and sickle on a T-shirt or a hat. It was a minor observation, but sometimes, it is through just such minor observations that a cultural mood is best observed. For here, the lesson could not have been clearer: while the symbol of one mass murder fills us with horror, the symbol of another mass murder makes us laugh.”

People Has Beens Sometimes Would Be Laughing Lessons Horror Mass Murder West Mood Observation Symbols Shirts Buying Hats Soviet Minors T Shirt Hammers

Book:Gulag: A History

Source: Gulag: A History

“What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists - all terms conventionally applied to those who fight against exploitation, racism, sexism, and capitalism. We can never have too many of these, just as we can never have too few 'conservatives'.”

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Author:Grover Furr

“Virtual reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore it exists.”

Self Reality Form Chosen Virtual Reality

Book:Don't Scream

Source: Don't Scream

“Life isn't measured in minutes, but in heartbeats.”

Minutes Heartbeat

Author:Joan Lowery Nixon

“If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.”

Ifs Persons Restaurants Hotel Finding Yourself Restaurant Business

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

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