Nicola Barker Quotes
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All creatures are travellers. The most important journeys are the interior ones. The most important and the most hazardous.
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Modernity’s like a badly trained dog: try and make it heel, even for a moment, and it turns and bites the hand that fed it.
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If the truth was a woman she’d be a whore. She’d be an extremely supple, highly sinuous, ridiculously wanton slut.
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Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful.
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Urban man lives only in dreaming.
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Complacency’s like a disease to wild things.
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The trigger has been squeezed, the deathly mechanism has been enabled, the fatal course of a bullet has been set. No amount of bleating or praying or wailing of cajoling can halt it or stall it or call it back.