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Adulthood, for all its opportunities, meant the simultaneous accumulation of loss.
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Jeanette Winterson
“Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.”
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

William Shakespeare
“A plague on both your houses.”
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

George Orwell
“But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
George Orwell, 1984

Dorothy Parker
“I hate writing, I love having written.”
Dorothy Parker

Stewart Lee
“The kind of people that say “political correctness gone mad” are usually using that phrase as a kind of cover action to attack minorities or people that they disagree with. [...] And I’m sick, I’m really sick– 84% of you in this room that have agreed with this phrase, you’re like those people who turn around and go, “you know who the most oppressed minorities in Britain are? White, middle-class men.” You’re a bunch of idiots.”
Stewart Lee

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