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Language has gone on a long walk from the nineteenth century. ‘Sensible’ used to mean ‘sensitive’. ‘Gay’ used to mean ‘jolly’. ‘Lunatic asylum’ and ‘asylum seeker’ both use the same basic meaning of ‘asylum’: an inviolable place of refuge
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“The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.”
― Saturday
― Saturday
“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“Tessa distinguished absolutely between pain observed and pain shared. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It’s diplomatic pain. It’s television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set. Those who watch suffering and do nothing about it, in her book, were little better than those who inflicted it. They were the bad Samaritans.”
― The Constant Gardener
― The Constant Gardener
“Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”
― Sing You Home
― Sing You Home
“The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous”
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