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Mark Billingham

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THE WONDER YEARS I never knew it would be this hard to lose something I never had.
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THE WONDER YEARS Change is never easy. You fight to hold on. You fight to let go.
THE WONDER YEARS I guess sometimes the ground can shift between your feet. Sometimes your footing slips. You stumble....
THE WONDER YEARS All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We choose partners...
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THE WONDER YEARS You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?"
"Yes, he did."
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RICHARD BACH The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.
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J.R. RIM Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
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FRANK COYLE The first thought inside whose mind has it appeared? He should be awarded the Nobel Prize for origin...
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KATE SUMMERSCALE The light bulb has been around for 100 years. It's a great invention and a great light source ... bu...
NEAL HUNTER Every year in the next five years, the country will add more than 100 planes, meaning we will need m...
GAO HONGFENG It started after the first story appeared and has progressed from there. I spent 18 years building a...
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BERNARD WEBER His name," said the cabman, "was Mr. Sherlock Holmes."
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CHRIS WARE My career got sidetracked after fighting Holmes.
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DONALD PETERSON For the first time in years, she felt a yearning for something different, something real. Something ...
TALENA WINTERS Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
E. M. FORSTER None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BARUCH SPINOZA Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!
ASHIM SHANKER The game was played one way for 100 years or more, and now they are changing it.
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MARK TWAIN A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
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MARK TWAIN There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to...
MARK TWAIN All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will...
MARK MCCORMACK I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treas...
MARK TWAIN We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.”
Snorri shook his head. “A...
MARK LAWRENCE Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich...
MARK TWAIN