“One of the big things about being a man, she'd noted, was that being good, doing the work, wasn't enough. It had to be generally acknowledged that here you were, damn well seeing to business.”
Source: The Lonely Dead (2004), Ch. 6
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Michael Marshall Smith 26
British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer 1965Related quotes
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