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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.
-- Alexandra Fuller

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No one can rightly call his garden his own unless he himself made it.
-- Alfred Austin

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I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word
-- Laverne Cox

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Time itself made all things rare.
-- Lionel Shriver

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Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?
-- Michael Moorcock

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Arsene Wenger was talking about comparisons with Johan Cruyff, a player who only comes around every 10 years and Thierry Henry is definitely one of those
He looks a hell of a lot like me, only a fair bit older.
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
These men [medical doctors] plan ways of doubling their incomes and come to the public with the plea that they are sincerely interested in the health and welfare of our children and that they put over their income-increasing programs for the health of our babies and for the welfare of the school children. They are as cold-blooded as any class of criminals on the whole earth. Indeed, I know of no other class of criminals who live by crippling, maiming and killing babies and children.
We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and respecting each other's abilities, in addition to that little thing called love, helped us survive.
Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.
If you want to enjoy intimacy, you must learn to enjoy pain.
Okay," Kincaid said. "Anyone have any questions?" "Why do they sell hot dogs in packages of ten but hot dog buns in packages of eight?
In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.
I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees.