"Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me."

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Source : Jeff Lindsay (2008). “Dexter in the Dark”, p.22, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Jeff Lindsay

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“Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.”
“I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.”
“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
“I discovered lots of music; electronic synth bands from the mid-'80s like Depeche Mode, Soft Cell and Cabaret Voltaire. My friends and I used to take two-hour trips to the record store in Newcastle and we started buying copies of The Face and i-D. And then I went to art school and as time progressed, I ended up where I am now.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.”
“Where there is Dharma there is no karma. So we have to lean on Dharmic values and we have to build a Dharmic family, we have to relate to that family and we have to relate to it deeply.”
“A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.”
“She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient.”

Source : Mavis Gallant (2011). “Varieties of Exile”, p.200, New York Review of Books

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