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In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

Ben Aaronovitch

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there’s someone else to do the housework.
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Children Facts Reason
…good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport – like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
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Jumping Sports Wrestling
That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.
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Extra Morning Next Time
Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.
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Answers Ignored Question
If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it.
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Drunk People Thinking
When you’re a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don’t want to know.
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Adults Boys Effort
Conflict resolution,’ said Nightingale. ‘Is this what they teach at Hendon these days?’ ‘Yes, sir,’ I said. ‘But don’t worry, they also teach us how to beat people with phone books and the ten best ways to plant evidence.
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Books People Phones
And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they’re drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.
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Almost Always Between Consequences Start Unless
The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class.
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Character Educational Thinking
My dad once told me that the secret to a happy life was never to start something with a girl unless you were willing to follow wherever it led. It’s the best piece of advice he has ever given me, and probably the reason I was born.
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Dad Girl Happy Life
Somebody doesn’t know they’re not in Kansas anymore,’ said Stephanopoulos.
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Kansas Knows Said
I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police “first greeting”. “Oi!” I said “What do you think you’re doing?
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First Police Thinking
The worst part is staying in the room after you’ve broken the news, so that you’re forced to be there when someone’s life disintegrates around them. Some people say it doesn’t bother them – such people are not to be trusted.
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Broken Disintegrate News People Stay Worst
If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it’s your safest bet.
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Advice Police Talking
He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn’t know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.
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Giving Important Name
Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.
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Coffee Espresso Excellent

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