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I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
“The loo-table, however, did not appear.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Let me call your maid. Is there nothing you could take to give you present relief? A glass of wine; shall I get you one? You are very ill.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Because human beings lived then in a world in which physical strength was the most important attribute for survival; the physically stronger person was more likely to lead. And men in general are physically stronger. (There are of course many exceptions.) Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes. A man is as likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative, creative. We have evolved. But our ideas of gender have not evolved very much.”
― We Should All Be Feminists
― We Should All Be Feminists
“I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.”
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“In the morning, a local resident drapes a hose over the garden wall so the migrants can brush their teeth, wet their faces, and fill their canteens. A contingent of older ladies walks the tracks, passing out blessings with homemade bagged sandwiches and pickles. A guard from the hut calls Luca over and passes him a grape lollipop through the chain-link fence.”
― American Dirt
― American Dirt
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