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“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”Welcome to the investigative journalism a la Discworld!
“In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds.” "
I knew from experience that those narratives needed to be told by people on the inside looking out, because for too long they had been told by people on the outside looking in.
“Princess Margaret felt most at home in the company of the camp: the cultured and the waspish. It was to be her misfortune that such a high proportion of them kept diaries and moreover, diaries written with a view to publication. To a man they were mesmerised less by her image than by the cracks to be found in it.”
― Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
― Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
“We are all dying, just at different speeds.”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
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“Margaret thought the world cruel for seeing her as the negative version of her sister, yet it was also how she came to define herself. (...) On one side she was given an inflated sense of her own value, while on the other her confidence was continually undermined by comparisons with her sister. She was very spoilt and indulged and made to feel a very special person indeed, while simultaneously being given clearly to understand that it was her sister who was important.
She remained conscious of the image of the one who wasn’t and to some extent played on it: the one who wasn’t the queen, the one who wasn't taught constitutional history, because she wasn’t the one who’d be needing it; the one who wasn’t in the first coach and wouldn’t ever be the first onto Buckingham Palace balcony; the one who wasn’t given the important duties, but was obliged to make do with the also-rans.”
― Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
She remained conscious of the image of the one who wasn’t and to some extent played on it: the one who wasn’t the queen, the one who wasn't taught constitutional history, because she wasn’t the one who’d be needing it; the one who wasn’t in the first coach and wouldn’t ever be the first onto Buckingham Palace balcony; the one who wasn’t given the important duties, but was obliged to make do with the also-rans.”
― Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
“There are several ways," he said shyly, "in which I'm trying to improve myself. I have a great many books and records and now I'm learning to play golf. Do you know golf, Sister? The English think it's a very serious game. I was going to learn a much more serious game called cricket, but you need twenty two people...”
― Black Narcissus
― Black Narcissus
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