Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief. — Martin Amis, London Fields
Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief. — Martin Amis, London Fields
Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief. — Martin Amis, London Fields
Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief. — Martin Amis, London Fields
Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief. — Martin Amis, London Fields
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Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.

— Martin Amis, London Fields
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