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“Is my life, by any chance, about to take a new turn?”
“Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be.”
“He told himself that he could die some other time, in some other place.”
“Life, here I come!' he said. And was immediately and fatally run over by a bus.”
“His experience was that Justice was rarely as just as it ought to be. The others agreed.”
“Revenge is like politics, one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.”
“Well, now you can see how sensible it is not to start your day by guessing what might happen... After all, how long would I have had to go on guessing before I guessed this?”
“The hundred-year-old man had never let himself be irritated by people, even when there was a good reason to be, and he was not annoyed by the uncouth manner of this youth.”
“Allan looked at the bus and then at the suitcase, then again at the bus and then again at the suitcase. It has wheels, he said to himself. And there's a strap to pull it by too. And then Allan surp...”
“He turned to take one last look at the Old Peoples Home that until a few moments ago he had thought would be his last residence on Earth, and then he told himself that he could die some other tim...”
“Her heart broke. Because of sorrow. Because of guilt. Because of repressed dreams, visions and fantasies. Because almost nothing in her life had gone as she'd hoped.”
“Allan Emmanuelle Karlsson closed his eyes and felt perfectly convinced that he would now pass away for ever. It had been exciting, the entire journey, but nothing lasts for ever, except possibly ge...”
“If you don't think you have enough problems, you should acquire a mammal in Sweden just hours before you're about to fly home to the other side of the world, and then insist that the animal must co...”
“Allan interrupted the two brothers by saying that he had been out and about in the world and if there was one thing he had learned it was that the very biggest and apparently most impossible confli...”
“Bucket had started his criminal career in Braas, not far from when Allan and his new friends now found themselves. There he had gotten together with some like-minded peers and started the motorcycl...”
“Go and nose out the next piece of shit... as one said in the trade. If nothing else was available, you could run an article on the latest miracle diet. That always worked.”
“He turned to take one last look at the Old People’s Home that – until a few moments ago – he had thought would be his last residence on Earth, and then he told himself that he could die some other ...”
