Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world'…

Marisha Pessl
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Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velásquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?! ✨ Marisha Pessl (2013). Special Topics in Calamity Physics, p.432, Penguin UK
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