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Marjane Satrapi
“The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself:
Are my trousers long enough?
Is my veil in place?
Can my make-up be seen?
Are they going to whip me?

No longer asks herself:
Where is my freedom of thought?
Where is my freedom of speech?
My life, is it liveable?
What's going on in the political prisons?”
Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis

Charles Bukowski
“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
Charles Bukowski, Factotum

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

“How many yous have you been?
How many,
Lined up inside,
Each killing the last?”
Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

Max Porter
“Crouched across from her, Toothwort has darkened, his foliate head has ripened into moulde, fungus and brown ripples,sweaty, heavy with rot and enzymes. He smells like natural truth, like sex and death.”
Max Porter, Lanny

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