“Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.”

—  Jeff Lindsay , book Dexter in the Dark

Source: Dexter in the Dark

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American playwright and crime novelist Jeffry P. Freundlich 1952

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