“It’s no fun looking down on people if you can’t let them know you’re above them.”
Ben Aaronovitch book Moon Over Soho
Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 13, “Autumn Leaves” (p. 273)
“you can’t just let people down, dammit.”
— Hanif Kureishi, book The Last Word
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