December 2011
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“I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like...”
– Jackdaw Summer, David Almond
Dec 31st
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“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.”
– Charles Baudelaire 
Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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“[Cameron] seems content-free to me… Never had a job, except in PR, and it shows....”
– Christopher Hitchens on David Cameron
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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I just want to be a grown up with a house that has...
Dec 29th
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“Each time a girl opens a book and reads a womanless history, she learns she is...”
– Myra Pollack Sadker
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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You know when you’re planning on having an early night but then your best friend calls to talk about how since you spend too much time on the phone together maybe you should invest in long range walkie talkies and you end up discussing this for two hours? Those are fun times.
Dec 26th
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I forgot about capital punishment. Crying.
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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My Chrism Presents included: A box made of chocolate. A book on mental health and its interplay with Patriarchy and Feminism.  “Harry Potter: Page to Screen”. and 2 coats which make me feel like Princesses.  TO CHRISM.
Dec 25th
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“Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter’s evening, when dusk almost hides...”
– Night and Day, Virginia Woolf
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
– Voltaire
Dec 22nd
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“I adore Christmas. The fact that I know that Christianity’s origins lie more in...”
– Tim Minchin in his article on being cut from the Jonathan Ross show (which includes his hilarious new Christmas song), and how he deals with his daughter’s Father Christmas questions.
Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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“We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a...”
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics
Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way...”
– Kurt Vonnegut 
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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“Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
Dec 19th
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“I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake 
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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“It really worries me that 84% of this audience agrees with that statement,...”
– Stewart Lee  “which seems to me to be about an institutionalised politeness at its worst.”
Dec 17th
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“If you combine the populations of Great Britain, France, German, Japan,...”
– Toby Ziegler, The West Wing 
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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“To the dumb question ‘Why me?’,” he wrote, “the cosmos...”
– Christopher Hitchens obituary, Peter Wilby 
Dec 16th
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“The cure for poverty has a name, in fact: it’s called the empowerment of women....”
– Christopher Hitchens. 
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
– Christopher Hitchens, 13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011 It’s interesting how entrenched in religion our platitudes about death are. All the normal clichés are unusable for someone of such a profound lack of faith as Hitch. I can’t and won’t call him a ‘gift from God’,...
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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“Booth compared what she called the slow progress of women’s rights in the...”
– Cherie Booth makes some very good points about women in British Politics.
Dec 14th
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Today is one of those days when I am angry at everything and everyone.
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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“We have at our disposal a captive audience of schoolchildren. Some of them don’t...”
– Season 2, Episode 9, “Galileo” 
Dec 13th
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“There will be parties in brilliant rooms; and one man will single me out and...”
– The Waves, Virginia Woolf
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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“September Song born 19.6.32 - deported 24.9.42 Undesirable you may have...”
– September Song, Geoffrey Hill
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Hillary Clinton being (generally) awesome about... →
The third, and perhaps most challenging, issue arises when people cite religious or cultural values as a reason to violate or not to protect the human rights of LGBT citizens. This is not unlike the justification offered for violent practices towards women like honor killings, widow burning, or female genital mutilation. Some people still defend those practices as part of a cultural tradition....
Dec 6th
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“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”
– Lois Wyse, an American advertising executive
Dec 6th
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Dec 4th
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Dec 4th
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“C’est l’histoire d’un mec qui tombe d’un immeuble de cinquante étages au fur et...”
– La Haine, Hubert
Dec 3rd
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