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I__ just saying that once that have an excuse, people will do anything. They do what they are told, and they take their money and they think it__ all okay because it__ just their job, while their real self is what happens after work, when they__e bouncing a baby on the knee, or writing poems about snowflakes or whatever.
Paul Murray The Mark and the Void
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I__ just saying that once that have an excuse, people will do anything. They do what they are told, and they take their money and they think it__ all okay because it__ just their job, while their real self is what happens after work, when they__e bouncing a baby on the knee, or writing poems about snowflakes or whatever.
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The Mark and the Void

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