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#MilitantFactionsQuotes 92: All the pain, selfishness, friendships forsaken and lovers forced out by my obsession...

Posted on December 14, 2021 at 3:00 AM


#MilitantFactionsQuotes 92:

On that strange afternoon when I heard my novel had been accepted I sat in my study, Linda’s photograph looking d...

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#MilitantFactionsQuotes 91: It was probably the only time I was both young, and knew that I was young

Posted on December 13, 2021 at 1:50 AM


#MilitantFactionsQuotes 91:

London, June 2010

It was that journey around Europe that first gave me some id...

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#MilitantFactionsQuotes 90: Nothing has prepared me for Cable Beach...

Posted on December 12, 2021 at 6:10 AM


#MilitantFactionsQuotes 90:

Nothing has prepared me for Cable Beach: the dinosaur layers, the vicious reds, the camel trains and 4WDs leaving tempo...

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#MilitantFactionsQuotes 89: Hemingway would have taken a goat skin of wine to recover; I take Ibuprofen

Posted on December 12, 2021 at 6:05 AM


#MilitantFactionsQuotes 89:

We head north east to Soria, a small town in Castilla y Leon of Oi! graffiti and churches capped with the enormous nest...

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#MilitantFactionsQuotes 88: Floating above the paddy fields in an Indian helicopter

Posted on December 12, 2021 at 6:00 AM


#MilitantFactionsQuotes 88:

Floating above the paddy fields in an Indian helicopter, flashes of colour all around: painted elephants, greedy buffalo, colonial villas ruined by the sun and the vines. Everywhere ...

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#MilitantFactionsQuotes 87: In the summer of 1983, I was fortunate enough to spend a night under the stars

Posted on December 11, 2021 at 5:00 AM


#MilitantFactionsQuotes 87:

In the summer of 1983, I was fortunate enough to spend a night under the stars. Although I had known homelessness with ...

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#MilitantFactionsQuotes 86: Deirdre's folks had a caravan in Wells-next-the-Sea

Posted on December 11, 2021 at 4:45 AM


#MilitantFactionsQuotes 86:

It was Mickey’s idea to go on holiday: me, Mickey, Marsha and her mate from police school, Deirdre. Deirdre scare...

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#MilitantFactionsQuotes 85: The West, where even the sun went, destination for the hungry world

Posted on December 10, 2021 at 2:10 AM


#MilitantFactionsQuotes 85:

The woman sat in the booth watching the film, frowning, puzzled: so was Donald. The world portrayed - some rich America...

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#MilitantFactionsQuotes 84: A truck pulled up past the charred hotdog stand by the empty grey beach

Posted on December 9, 2021 at 2:15 AM


#MilitantFactionsQuotes 84:

A truck pulled up past the charred hotdog stand by the empty grey beach dotted with driftwood or dead seals. Honey look...

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#MilitantFactionsQuotes 83: -When I was a kid, he said, -mum took me to the big shop in town and I sat on Father Christmas's knee and he got a boner

Posted on December 8, 2021 at 3:05 AM


#MilitantFactionsQuotes 83:

-When I was a kid, he said, -mum took me to the big shop in town and I sat on Father Christmas’s knee and he got ...

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