I sat there, discouraged and depressed. Because in all of us brought up in a Western democracy there is this built-in belief that freedom and liberty will strengthen, will survive pressures, and the belief seems to survive any evidence against it. This belief is probably in itself a danger (496).
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I have been thinking of the novels about the break-down of language, like Finnegans Wake. And the preoccupation with semantics.
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November 13, 2024 at 1:23 AM
I have been thinking of the novels about the break-down of language, like Finnegans Wake. And the preoccupation with semantics.
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If people can imagine something, there'll come a time when they'll achieve it."
"Imagine what?"
"What you said-goodness. Kindness. The end of being animals."
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"Imagine what?"
"What you said-goodness. Kindness. The end of being animals."
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November 11, 2024 at 10:33 PM
If people can imagine something, there'll come a time when they'll achieve it."
"Imagine what?"
"What you said-goodness. Kindness. The end of being animals."
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"Imagine what?"
"What you said-goodness. Kindness. The end of being animals."
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For children like Janet the fabric of security is woven, not of grandparents, cousins, a settled home; but that friends telephone every day, and certain words are spoken.
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November 11, 2024 at 10:33 PM
For children like Janet the fabric of security is woven, not of grandparents, cousins, a settled home; but that friends telephone every day, and certain words are spoken.
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"And for us now, what is there?"
"Keeping the dream alive. Because there'll always be new people, without-paralysis of the will."
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"Keeping the dream alive. Because there'll always be new people, without-paralysis of the will."
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November 11, 2024 at 10:51 PM
"And for us now, what is there?"
"Keeping the dream alive. Because there'll always be new people, without-paralysis of the will."
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"Keeping the dream alive. Because there'll always be new people, without-paralysis of the will."
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"Publish and be damned!" he shouts. "Publish and be damned! That's what I say."
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November 15, 2024 at 12:38 AM
"Publish and be damned!" he shouts. "Publish and be damned! That's what I say."
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On a dry hillside in Algeria, a soldier watched the moonlight glinting on his rifle.
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November 30, 2024 at 10:04 PM
On a dry hillside in Algeria, a soldier watched the moonlight glinting on his rifle.
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There's always something beautiful in even an ugly woman. An ear for instance. Or a hand.
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November 19, 2024 at 1:13 AM
There's always something beautiful in even an ugly woman. An ear for instance. Or a hand.
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One personality for the committee room, another for the café afterwards.
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November 4, 2024 at 12:55 PM
One personality for the committee room, another for the café afterwards.
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Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.
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November 21, 2024 at 4:16 AM
Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.
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November 15, 2024 at 12:37 AM
“Oh hell,” said Molly, shrugging. “It’s coming back to England again - everybody so shut up, taking offence.” 2/2
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November 2, 2024 at 2:02 PM
“Oh hell,” said Molly, shrugging. “It’s coming back to England again - everybody so shut up, taking offence.” 2/2
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November 4, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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But I could feel the cold of loneliness coming from him. The cold of loneliness was all around me.
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November 26, 2024 at 4:29 PM
But I could feel the cold of loneliness coming from him. The cold of loneliness was all around me.
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[The yellow notebook looked like the manuscript of a novel, fo was called The Shadow of the Third. It certainly began like a novel:]
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November 8, 2024 at 4:09 PM
[The yellow notebook looked like the manuscript of a novel, fo was called The Shadow of the Third. It certainly began like a novel:]
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