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The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social

by Steffen Mau

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The Lost Girls of Autism: The Untold Story of Women on the Spectrum

by Gina Rippon

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Sum of Us: A History of the UK in Data

by Georgina Sturge

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“Oh how the family affections combat
Within this heart, and each hour flings a bomb at
My burning soul! Neither from owl nor from bat
Can peace be gained until I clasp my wombat.”
― Dante Gabriel Rossetti

tags: wombat

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“My dear, I don't care what they do, so long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses”
― Mrs Patrick Campbell

tags: humour, sexuality

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“On the night bus, I felt as though parts of other people were going into parts of me I didn’t even know existed. I felt like I was being more intimate with members of the night-bus community than I’d ever been with anyone in my whole life.”
― Helen Fielding, Mad About the Boy

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“You don't have to pay its rent just because it is a book.”
― Susan Hill, Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home

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“The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains.”
― Iris Murdoch

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