February 2012
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I follow over 1000 people because if I click on someone’s page and there’s any semblance of intellect I immediately click ‘follow’.
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“I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. Like a five-year-old, I want to close my...”
– Selected bits FROM THIS ARTICLE which is almost entirely perfect.
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I want a Disney Princess film at the end of which the Princess decides to renounce her crown and work towards democracy for her country.
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“No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a...”
– Ishmael Reed
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“When we complain about men raping, abusing, harassing, and refusing us our human...”
– Unknown.
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“We go to remote war zones to report what is happening. The public have a right...”
– From Marie Colvin’s 2010 speech on the importance of war reporting.
“My answer then, and now, was that it is worth it.”
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Today I was sad because I bought a Whirl and ate half of it but then I had a lesson so I put it in my bag to finish later and then after my lesson I couldn’t find it.
(There is a small chance I ate it all BEFORE the lesson but wouldn’t I remember its chocolate-y goodness?)
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“In Arabic, the word “bayt” translates literally as house, but its connotations...”
– An excerpt from Anthony Shadid’s House of Stone, his forthcoming memoir excerpted on the New York Times.
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“O sleep! O gentle sleep!
Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That...”
– Henry IV Part II, Act 3 Scene 1, William Shakespeare
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“At a certain point in your life, probably when too much of it has gone by…...”
– Miss Dodger, Phoebe in Wonderland
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“Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.”
– John Osbourne.
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“You have plenty of courage, I am sure,” answered Oz. “All you need...”
– The Wonderful The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety,...”
– Benjamin Franklin
This is essentially how I feel about Blair’s Labour post 9/11.
Feelings, feelings go away, come again another...
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I like complementing people. Not just ‘oh, you’re nice’ but finding something specific that they’ve done, or said, or something specific about their personality that matters and noting it. I think genuine complements are important and also fun.
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“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”
– William Blake.
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“I feel like talking always brings us closer to understanding, rather than...”
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Melissa Harris-Perry, professor of political science at Tulane University on talking about racism.
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“do pilots
get scared when they read
about icarus?”
– Haiku Series - “Jobs”
newbeatnik
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“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the...”
– Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
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“For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying — what one...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
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“I think that’s one of the hard parts about being a teenager is you’re just old...”
– Lionel Shriver
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“People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.”
– Slaughterhouse V, Kurt Vonnegut.
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“But in those brief poised seconds above the waiting sea, in that luminous...”
– The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles.
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Not Okay of the Day
A teacher telling me she was going to ‘say a prayer to the Lord for me’ tonight.
Intrusive and inappropriate and INEFFECTUAL.
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“”Okay, so I don’t know all twelve Apostles… but I can name...”
– Me to my Mother.
