“I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book”

—  Jeff Lindsay , book Dearly Devoted Dexter

Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter

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American playwright and crime novelist Jeffry P. Freundlich 1952

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