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  1. Roddy Doyle _ Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

    But it wasn't boring like this; I loved it, sitting there doing nothing. There wasn't even anything to look at except the houses across the road.
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  2. Roddy Doyle _ Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

    If you were going to be best friends with anyone – Kevin – you had to hate a lot of other people, the two of you, together. It made you better friends.
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  3. Roddy Doyle _ Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

    The worst was when there was nothing in the sky, nothing to grab, blue blue blue.
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  4. Roddy Doyle _ Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

    They'd had a fight again. – You'll have your work cut out for you, I said. One of their quiet ones. She laughed. Where they whispered their screams and roaring. She laughed at me. And she was always the first one to cry and he kept stabbing at her with his face and his words.
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  5. Roddy Doyle _ Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

    They were our friends because we hated them; it was good to have them around. I was cleaner than them, brainier than them. I was better than them.
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  6. Roddy Doyle _ Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

    They didn't understand. They didn't understand that robbing had nothing to do with what we wanted; it was the dare, the terror, the getting away with it.
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  7. Roddy Doyle _ Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

    I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen
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  8. Roddy Doyle _ Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

    I knew all the books in the house. I knew their shapes and smells. I knew what pages would open if I held them with the spine on the ground and let the sides drop. I knew all the books but I couldn't remember the name of the one on my head.
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  9. Roddy Doyle _ Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

    I was the ref. I was the ref they didn't know about. Deaf and dumb. Invisible as a wall. I wanted no one to win"
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  10. Roddy Doyle _ Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

    If you were going to be best friends with anyone - Kevin - you had to hate a lot of other people, the two of you, together. It made you better friends.
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  11. Roddy Doyle _ Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

    Sometimes, when you were thinking about something, trying to understand it, it opened up in your head without you expecting it to, like it was a soft spongy light unfolding, and you understood, it made sense forever…
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  12. Roddy Doyle _ Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

    We parked our bikes on verges so they could graze.
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