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1 " Breathing is supposed to keep you calm, but also it keeps you alive and so you are not calm, because you are alive and being alive is never calm. "
― A.L. Kennedy , Serious Sweet
2 " There, there, dear, we're sorry that you'll keep on being you. It's rotten, but what are the choices...? "
3 " And I really shouldn't think about politics, and who should, frankly?Who should willingly waste their time on that? Politics is just an organised and expensive way of being furious. "
4 " I like cautious people. They are like me. Not that I like me. "
5 " looked at the better-informed faces passing with that Westminster Expression, the Estate Expression: a certain gravitas, a pinch of visible intelligence, alert attention, and—above all—irritation. Westminster found all that was not Westminster—and much that was—deeply irritating. Here "
6 " She wanted to give people something kind and simple. That wasn't available.The cheap cake was horrible. The expensive cake tasted of greed - of greedy bakers.She couldn't win.Who knew cake was such a bastard? "
7 " I've always been a man for details, can't get enough of them. Not a spy, not a bit of it, not really. An observer. Product of an unsentimental education. It's the least you can do - watch.Watch it all tumbling down like the Wall - Berliner Mauer, the Antifacist Protection Rampart. Never a good sign when your wording tries that hard to fight reality, it suggests the beginning of your tumble. Yes, it does. It always does.But I'd rather watch beauty.And is that a denial of reality, or an attempt to embrace it? I think I am too tired to know. I hope I am too tired to know. "
8 " The only contry in the world where there's a majority of women in parliament is Rwanda. Rwanda. That's when women get power, real power - if the men are either dead or in prison. "
9 " Do I echo because I am hollow, or because I am a captive animal under stress and reassured by repetitions? "
10 " I'm not, not this monster of the kind we're meant to be - rape threats as idle chatter and demanding every woman should be nude and pretending we have to be scoundrels as a matter of course. That isn't what a man should be. "
11 " I could give minor insanity as my excuse for perceived wrongdoing... But I don't want to live in a world where concern for others and for the consequences of actions and for safety and reality and ... Well, why not ...? I don't want to live in a world where having a concern for true beauty on a wider and wider scale would be regarded as a manifestation of mental illness. "
12 " - you have the Hindenburg burning inside you always - "
13 " I'm fine."I'm Fucked-Up Insecure Neurotic and Emotional.F.I.N.E. "
14 " You're not insane.""You're not exactly best placed to judge. "
15 " ... it's always chairs and waiting - and I had a book with me in my little bag, one about polar explorers, because those bastards had it worse than anyone. "