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"Have to pause here as it's due back at the library - someone's reserved it so I can't renew. I've got a couple of Audible credits so might switch to the audiobook..." — Aug 26, 2022 10:46AM
"Have to pause here as it's due back at the library - someone's reserved it so I can't renew. I've got a couple of Audible credits so might switch to the audiobook..." — Aug 26, 2022 10:46AM
People like her had grown up with the habit of making things last. They knew that boots and shoes lasted longer if they were given care and attention. You could only indulge in deliberate shabbiness if you were sure new shoes would be
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“No matter how much money you earn, you can only eat three meals a day and sleep in one bed”
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“He knows he is only being asked to be respectful, and he knows people just want to turn up to work and do their job and not be reminded every five minutes of what they look like. Douglas knows they are right and he is wrong. He doesn't miss the good old days, he misses his good old days. He doesn't suppose they were good for most people.
But to really admit that to himself would be to admit to a lifetime of wearing his comfortable blinkers.”
― The Man Who Died Twice
But to really admit that to himself would be to admit to a lifetime of wearing his comfortable blinkers.”
― The Man Who Died Twice
“According to Human Rights Watch, “the proportion of blacks in prison populations exceeds the proportion among state residents in every single state.”
― White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
― White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
“The whittling down of racism to sheet-wearing goons allowed a cloud of racial innocence to cover many whites who, although “resentful of black progress” and determined to ensure that racial inequality remained untouched, could see and project themselves as the “kind of upstanding white citizen[s]” who were “positively outraged at the tactics of the Ku Klux Klan.”
― White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
― White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
“The disposable girl should develop a drink problem or take drugs. She should become the victim of someone else, somewhere else. At best she becomes a campaigner against whatever she was a victim of. Nothing can happen to her that doesn't refer back to the attack. She has been branded.
But that's not true because the world is full of us. One in five. We are as perennial as love. We go about our business, raising kids, running countries, starting wars and solving crimes. We don't tell our stories because, if we've survived, that can only mean that what happened wasn't so very bad after all. It never means that we are fucking amazing.
I am fucking amazing.
When I was nineteen I ran so fast I left a branding behind. And I have stories to tell that are more than titillating details or pleas for your pity.
This is just one of them.”
― Conviction
But that's not true because the world is full of us. One in five. We are as perennial as love. We go about our business, raising kids, running countries, starting wars and solving crimes. We don't tell our stories because, if we've survived, that can only mean that what happened wasn't so very bad after all. It never means that we are fucking amazing.
I am fucking amazing.
When I was nineteen I ran so fast I left a branding behind. And I have stories to tell that are more than titillating details or pleas for your pity.
This is just one of them.”
― Conviction
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