There is a catch in his voice, as if he might be about to cry himself, and, wretched as dragging it all out again has made me feel, there’s comfort to be had, because no one outside my family – maybe no one inside it, not really – has ever
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“Furthermore, please never refer to any form of exercise or any exclusionary method of eating as ‘a philosophy’. Existentialism is a philosophy. Raw food is food that has not been heated above 40 degrees. Let that clear up any persistent muddling of the two.”
― What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times
― What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times
“After all, as a junior minister in Her Majesty’s government, Andrea enjoyed the sort of anonymity you’d hope for in one of the better witness protection programmes.”
― What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times
― What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times
“He sniffed: ‘People with knives will end up stabbing themselves,’ which sounds like something Iain’s mother might have told him when he was 13 to explain why he was still using a spoon to eat his lunch.”
― What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times
― What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times
“May loses her majority and is effectively left on life support for the rest of her premiership. (Boris Johnson spends a lot of time hanging around the plug socket looking shifty.)”
― What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times
― What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times
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