You're in America now, I said. Our idea of diplomacy is showing up wit…

Jim Butcher
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You're in America now, I said. Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer. ✨ Jim Butcher (2009). Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files, p.154, Penguin
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You're in America now, I said. Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer. ✨ Jim Butcher (2009). Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files, p.154, Penguin

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