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Leaving London
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2014
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The Days That Don't Disappear: Short Story
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A Relationship, in Pieces
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2014
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And When the Arguing's Over...
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2012
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Grand Canyon
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2013
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The Last Busker in London and New York for Beginners
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2011
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All of Us With Our Pointless Worries and Inconsequential Dramas: Short Stories
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2014
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Red Lights
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2019
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Leaving London
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2014
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Trying not to put a foot wrong
Second-guessing every step
You can only do your best, they say
But there’s a heaviness
When putting a price on history
What’s it worth to you?
Really worth?
It shouldn’t mean much,
You always said it didn’t
So why is it so hard
To erase
This place
In this part
Of a city
You said
You never really
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“Well the other thing about lying is that the liar is banking on two things when telling the lie. They are hoping that the person being lied to is gullible enough to believe, and it’s also not even that they think they are gullible, it’s that they know the person they are lying to well enough that they know the person won’t push it any further because they know the person they are lying to wants to believe the lie.”
― And When the Arguing's Over...: Contemporary One Act Plays
― And When the Arguing's Over...: Contemporary One Act Plays
“Well, you may think you have all your ducks in a row, that your life is sorted. You might have the perfect house, the perfect job, the perfect life, nothing to worry about and then something can come along and end all of that in a second. It’s absolutely beyond your control. You can’t plan for unexpected things. And then people start saying, as a way of coping with this latest catastrophe, that it was meant to happen, it was fate. It’s not fate, it’s not some greater force out there. It’s just life and you cannot control life.”
― Leaving London
― Leaving London
“If you aren’t paranoid before you arrive in this city, give it a few weeks and you will soon notice it creeping in, dripping into your subconscious like a leaky tap. The trick is not to give a flying fuck what anyone thinks about you, and if you are in the right frame of mind this can be an easy trick to perform but if not you’ll soon notice that for a city full of people who do a great Stevie Wonder impersonation when it comes to the homeless and beggars and casual violence towards others, wearing the wrong kind of shoes or a cheap suit brings out a sneering, hateful attitude that can have weaker minded individuals locked in their houses for weeks before harassing their doctors for prescriptions of Prozac and Beta blockers just to make it out the front door.”
― Leaving London
― Leaving London
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“You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.”
― Leaving London
― Leaving London
“Your problem is that you’re more like an empty book and you’re waiting on someone else to write your pages for you. For someone who doesn’t believe in fate, destiny and all that shit, you seem to spend an awful lot of time waiting for something to happen to you.”
― Leaving London
― Leaving London
“The thing about lying is it’s like creating your own world, controlling your own little world. A tiny innocent, or as some people call them white lie, can lead eventually to the break-up of a relationship. If the other person in the relationship knows the person has lied, no matter if it was with good intentions, then it’s the beginning of the breakdown of trust. A profile or a picture is being continually formed of the two people in a relationship, and the lies, big and small, add to that profile.”
― And When the Arguing's Over...: Contemporary One Act Plays
― And When the Arguing's Over...: Contemporary One Act Plays
“Well the other thing about lying is that the liar is banking on two things when telling the lie. They are hoping that the person being lied to is gullible enough to believe, and it’s also not even that they think they are gullible, it’s that they know the person they are lying to well enough that they know the person won’t push it any further because they know the person they are lying to wants to believe the lie.”
― And When the Arguing's Over...: Contemporary One Act Plays
― And When the Arguing's Over...: Contemporary One Act Plays
“If you aren’t paranoid before you arrive in this city, give it a few weeks and you will soon notice it creeping in, dripping into your subconscious like a leaky tap. The trick is not to give a flying fuck what anyone thinks about you, and if you are in the right frame of mind this can be an easy trick to perform but if not you’ll soon notice that for a city full of people who do a great Stevie Wonder impersonation when it comes to the homeless and beggars and casual violence towards others, wearing the wrong kind of shoes or a cheap suit brings out a sneering, hateful attitude that can have weaker minded individuals locked in their houses for weeks before harassing their doctors for prescriptions of Prozac and Beta blockers just to make it out the front door.”
― Leaving London
― Leaving London
