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“The following morning as the waxy bodies of seven former ministers were carried out horizontally through the back door of Madame Tussauds, the most obvious casualty was Macmillan’s chief supporter Selwyn Lloyd. Unpopular with some for his 1962 Budget tax on children’s sweets and ice cream, he had been a loyal Chancellor of the Exchequer and was shattered by his unexpected and ruthless dismissal.”
― Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country
― Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and how Britain Emerged a Different Country
“I’m sure the topography of our lawn dictated how I batted in the years to come. There was a greenhouse at mid-wicket and a privet hedge, about two or three feet high, beyond a path on the offside. So it was dangerous to hit anything to mid-wicket or there would be the grim tinkle of broken glass; but there were no such hazards on the offside.”
― Original Spin: Misadventures in Cricket
― Original Spin: Misadventures in Cricket
“stood like this for an hour, maybe two. The train snaked through the desert and steppe at forty or fifty kilometres an hour. Kazakhstan covers an area of 2,724,900 square kilometres, which is bigger than Western Europe. It is the ninth largest country in the world, and the largest one without a coast. And there, by the dusty train window, I started to realise just how big 2,724,900 square kilometres is. Kazakhstan is more than twice the size of the four other Central Asian countries combined. The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, today’s Kazakhstan, accounted for twelve per cent of the total area of the Soviet Union, which was a staggering 22,402,200 square metres. By comparison, Russia is currently 17,075,200 square kilometres. In other words, Kazakhstan alone accounts for more than half the territory lost by Russia in the breakup of the Soviet Union.”
― Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
― Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
“It also gives life a richness and unpredictability that endows even the simplest undertakings with an air of challenge and uncertainty.”
― The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
― The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
“For some, leaving was a necessity that went under the official name of ‘transition’. We were a society in transition, it was said, moving from socialism to liberalism, from one-party rule to pluralism, from one place to the other. Opportunities would never come to you, unless you went looking for them, like the half-cockerel in the old Albanian folk tale who travels far away, looking for his kismet, and in the end returns full of gold. For others, leaving the country was an adventure, a childhood dream come true or a way to please their parents. There were those who left and never returned. Those who went and came back soon after. Those who turned the organization of movement into a profession, who opened travel agencies or smuggled people on boats. Those who survived, and became rich. Those who survived, and continued to struggle. And those who died trying to cross the border. In”
― Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
― Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
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