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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.” "
Mistress Philippa’s husband.
I like how Lymond isn't referred to in his own right, but as an "appendage" to Philippa.
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“It is Cinderella in reverse. It is hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled. Nothing is as thrilling as they said it would be: no one is amusing, as clever, as attractive or as interesting. The sun never shines as bright as it used to, and even the fiercest thunderstorm lacks any real sense of drama or pizzaz. As the curtain falls, Group Captain Charming has left her for someone more suitable and has gone to live in France, and Buttons, in his zip-up jumpsuit, has taken up with a wearying succession of younger lovers. When Cinderella dies, her little glass slipper is put up for auction, a memento of days of hope and innocence. The catalogue entry reads: 'Only worn once.”
― Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
― 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
“I never gave them courage,” he said. “I was able to focus theirs.”
― The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
― The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
“What can you do but, as Cicero says, live hopefully, die bravely?”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“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
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