"In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK."

-- Frances O'Grady

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“I didn't cry at my father's funeral, and I felt guilty about that. Of course, he got sick not too long after he and I had had that final altercation, and I felt real guilty because of that, too. Then years later, one day, I was probably in my late twenties, early thirties, and I just broke down crying, because I finally got my father.”
“It happened that sometimes I kissed in mirrors the reflection of my face; since the hands, face and tears of Annalena had caressed it, my face seemed suffused to me divinely beautiful and as if suffused with heavenly sweetness.”
“It makes me sick when I see a guy just stare at a loose ball and watch it go out ofÂ bounds.”
“I wasn't going to let things happen to me any more. I was going to make them happen.”
“Hiphop has remained in an infantile stage and has not been allowed to grow.”
“In the end we had changed the position of the hands so many times that we had no idea what the time really was.”

Source : Sijie Dai (2002). “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress”, Anchor
“The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.”
“I thought about going back to working at the gas station. I probably didn't like it at the time, but now it seems very romantic.”

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