““Are you a religious man, Joe?”
Flitch pulled a face. “I leaves that sort of thing to women.””

— Brian W. Aldiss , book Greybeard

Source: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 149)

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British science fiction author 1925–2017

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