It reminded me of the potential of working-class solidarity, and how tragically those bonds have been continually undermined by people in power, how the presence of black people has been spun into a threat rather than an opportunity to
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“The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“Diagnosticians act in many ways like politicians who may overtly take their differences very seriously but are always willing to shake hands in a smoke-filled room”
― Scripts People Live: Transactional Analysis of Life Scripts
― Scripts People Live: Transactional Analysis of Life Scripts
“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
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