Liam Ostermann
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Liam Ostermann Liam Ostermann said: " I read this book maybe in 2010 and bought a copy in 2021 - I remember it as brilliant but full of elisions and problems of consistency - I need to read it again so I can properly review and rate. "

 
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Daniel Allen Cox
“Leslie Jamison points out in her essay “Does Recovery Kill Great Writing?”: “If you needed to drink that much, you had to hurt, and drinking and writing were two different responses to that same molten pain: You could numb it, or you could grant it a voice.”
Daniel Allen Cox, I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness

Jung Chang
“Lies were told with ease because words had lost their meaning.”
Jung Chang

George Orwell
“The worst books are often the most important, because they are usually the ones that are read earliest in life.”
George Orwell, Inside the Whale and Other Essays
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Iain Banks
“Have fun, be nice, veer left, and never stop thinking.”
Iain Banks, Walking on Glass

Simon Goldhill
“I have used the word ‘tolerance’ in this chapter because it is the term that the people I am writing about use with real intent. Tolerance here, I think, is not what Goethe brilliantly diagnosed when he wrote, ‘Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to recognition. To tolerate is to offend.’2 So often, as Goethe knew, to talk of tolerance is a sign and symptom of the failure to integrate – and a hierarchical, patronising attitude towards others. We will tolerate you if you fit in with us: an attempt to keep power relations in place, while disavowing their force. But tolerance towards queerness is a much more unstable dynamic, which requires a different, more radical form of hospitality to otherness, and an acknowledgement of the impact of queerness on one’s own sense of self, and a consequent loss of bearings. Tolerance in this sense is an exploratory value, and not just a gesture of political self-congratulation.”
Simon Goldhill, Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History

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