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“Yes of course there's always someone worse off than you. But imagine you're in a doctor's surgery with a broken arm. The person next to you has two broken arms, the person next to him has two broken arms and a broken leg. This is all very well, but the point is that you have a broken arm and it hurts.”
― How Not to Be a Boy
― How Not to Be a Boy
“By all the Gods, there is nothing to match a man for tedium. We call it sport and joshing, but there is loneliness at its core.”
― The Fates
― The Fates
“Goths choose to live with paradox, and taking your look seriously while laughing at yourself is just one of the many dualities they manage to balance.”
― The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined
― The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined
“The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest is just a fucking lunatic.”
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“I have no desire to eat it beneath pictures of the proprietor sulking in a bandana, which is why I tend to avoid Marco Pierre White’s places. I agree with the singer Paul Heaton, who remarked recently, ‘women have been cooking for a thousand years and no one ever mentioned it. Men have been cooking for ten minutes and they never stop bloody going on about it’.”
― The Pie At Night: In Search of the North at Play
― The Pie At Night: In Search of the North at Play
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