We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up. — Ian McDonald, The Dervish House
We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up. — Ian McDonald, The Dervish House
We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up. — Ian McDonald, The Dervish House
We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up. — Ian McDonald, The Dervish House
We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up. — Ian McDonald, The Dervish House
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We were young and thought we were invincible and we threw ourselves into the gears of history and it ground us up.

— Ian McDonald, The Dervish House
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