"The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London telephone booth to look like that it would have to be guarded around the clock by the SAS."

-- Clive James

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“Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.”
“So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.”
“My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or the present aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.”

Source : Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Marshall, September 1870.
“A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.”
“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
“I mean everybody's got ex-boyfriends and girlfriends. Everybody's got baggage.”
“In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.”
“I have mostly software synthesizers and software drum machines. I'm very lazy. I don't really like to plug in a lot of equipment and external boxes and everything.”

Source : "Fever Ray". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. March 30, 2009.

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