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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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“You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.”
― Sing You Home
― Sing You Home
“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.”
― On Chesil Beach
― On Chesil Beach
“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.”
― 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
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