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King Rat Quotes

"But Grey was not alone in his hatred. The whole of Changi hated the King. They hated him for his muscular body, the clear glow in his blue eyes. In this twilight world of the half alive there were no fat or well-built or round or smooth or fair-built or thick-built men. There were only faces dominated by eyes and set on bodies that were skin over sinews over bones. No difference between them but age and face and height. In all this world, only the King ate like a man, smoked like a man, slept like a man, dreamed like a man and looked like a man.
'You,' Grey barked. 'Corporal! Come over here!'
The King had been aware of Grey ever since he had turned the corner of the jail, not because he could see into the blackness of the...
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