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Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief.

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You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.

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If God resides anywhere... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.

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The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

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Simon Mawer

Simon Mawer

Born: 1948 (age 76)
Bio: Simon Mawer is a British author who lives in Italy.
Known for:
  1. The Glass Room (2009)
  2. The Girl Who Fell From The Sky (2012)
  3. Mendel's dwarf (1997)
  4. Swimming To Ithaca (2006)
  5. The fall (2003)

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