I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direct…

Christopher Hitchens
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I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me. ✨ Christopher Hitchens (2012). Mortality, p.9, Hachette UK
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I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me. ✨ Christopher Hitchens (2012). Mortality, p.9, Hachette UK

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