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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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“It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“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
“You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.”
― Saturday
― Saturday
“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
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