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Being trapped in a lift. With Lily Allen.
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A Festival Of Cherries
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2012
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Quarter Past Summer
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2014
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Going Down to Burgois
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2011
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The Flower Presser: A Ghost Story
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The Seaweed Dragon
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2014
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A Year In Dierne Bay
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2021
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Knut And The Free Kingdom: A Fairy Tale For All Free Kingdomers
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Knut And The Free Kingdom: A Fairy Tale For All Free Kingdomers
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First They Came For The Words
Control of words doesn’t just inhibit speech, it inhibits imagination, and thought itself. The content which is approved can actually be foul, because morals and decency don’t come into it. It is about control, and the eradication of any whose speech indicates that they are not afraid.
And already, just by writing that paragraph, I know I will have triggered those who think that the elimination of
“Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, or a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient Champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope, and a sock in the eye.”
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Idleness, sorrow, a friend, or a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient Champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope, and a sock in the eye.”
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“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”
― 1984
― 1984
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
― The Tempest
― The Tempest
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
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“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon forgotten, but then—how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
