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He wore his medals. He had a surprising number of them, the real kind, not the ones you got for turning up. Although turning up was no mean thing, some days.Nick Harkaway
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He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they had silence, and not many people had that.Nick Harkaway
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He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.Nick Harkaway
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This is the world, he thought. And I am in it.Nick Harkaway
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Don't fuck around thinking you could have done it better. There is no better. There's just not being dead.Nick Harkaway