White Teeth
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All women, of every shade, from midnight-black to albino, were Millat’s. They slipped him phone numbers, they gave him blow jobs in public places, they crossed crowded bars to buy him a drink, they pulled him into taxis, they followed him
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“Mapping As travellers, drawing lines from place to place, we copy the nervous conceit of mapmakers. We crop the edges of our worlds like failed photographs, but our discarded parts, with their uncertain shifts from inside to outside, show that definiteness is only the edge of desire.”
― The Dream in the Next Body
― The Dream in the Next Body

“There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale

“Music is everything and nothing. It is useless and no limit can be set on its use. Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could devise. Music makes me write this sort of maundering adolescent nonsense without embarrassment. Music is in fact the dog's bollocks. Nothing else comes close.”
― Moab Is My Washpot
― Moab Is My Washpot

“But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park

“Someone once said that all autobiography is a form of revenge. It can also be a form of thank-you letter.”
― Moab Is My Washpot
― Moab Is My Washpot

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