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"It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know."

"Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself."

"Damn,' someone behind me says. 'I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later."

"Ignore the reek of feces in the air, the bloodstains on the ground, and you have yourself a glorious night."
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"You're always making up stuff from the past, she said. "And the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened."


"Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is."


"Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Well, I hate to argue with a Russian genius, but Tolstoy didn't know Indians, and he didn't know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reasons: the frikkin' booze."
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