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Suddenly a police Land Rover with its hee-haw siren blaring swung into the main road behind them with a squeal of tyres. It roared along and overtook them so fast its body tilted at an angle to the chassis.
Someone said, "Jesus, they'll sell no ice cream going at that speed."

— Bernard MacLaverty Cal (1983)

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A bird's-eye view does not see the truth.

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"It concentrates the mind wonderfully knowing that this [life] is all we can expect."

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"I always say that a man with one language is like a man with one eye."

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