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A lot of post-war slum clearance was a myth and an insult. People resisted eviction, tried to save their homes. There would be newspaper pieces for years to come about people holding out in Glasgow. One old lady, featured in a newspaper
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“I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness. ”
― The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
― The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
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“Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.”
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.”
― The Winter's Tale
― The Winter's Tale
“You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
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