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“The remark that did him most harm at the club was a silly aside to the effect that the so-called white races are really pinko-grey. He only said this to be cheery, he did not realize that “white” has no more to do with a colour than “God save the King” with a god, and that it is the height of impropriety to consider what it does connote.”

— A Passage to India by E. M. Foster

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“At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.”

Room With A View, E M Forster

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Well this, towards the end of The Stranger’s Child, is unexpectedly devastating

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Heathers (1988) dir. Michael Lehmann

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“There is much that is immortal in this medieval lady. The dragons have gone, and so have the knights, but still she lingers in our midst. She reigned in many an early Victorian castle, and was Queen of much early Victorian song. It is sweet to protect her in the intervals of business, sweet to pay her honour when she has cooked our dinner well. But alas! the creature grows degenerate. In her heart also there are springing up strange desires. She too is enamoured of heavy winds, and vast panoramas, and green expanses of the sea. She has marked the kingdom of this world, how full it is of wealth, and beauty, and war—a radiant crust, built around the central fires, spinning towards the receding heavens. Men, declaring that she inspires them to it, move joyfully over the surface, having the most delightful meetings with other men, happy, not because they are masculine, but because they are alive. Before the show breaks up she would like to drop the august title of the Eternal Woman, and go there as her transitory self.”

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A circulating video of sisters who bought the same clothes for their husbands 😂❤️

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I’m so sorry I loved supernatural, but it wasn’t good then bad, it always balanced being terrible and fun, terrible and deplorable, and some really good moments.

+ leave in tags if/when you stopped watching

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“I’M FORCED to pause, whenever I’m going to have a nervous breakdown, and consider the single most obvious objection: I can’t afford one.”

— I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz

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“Readers are hard to account for, as is whichever book of yours they’re reading. It never happens that the book they’re reading is precisely the one you wrote.”

— My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman

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“I have this feeling that in any therapy, three-fourths of what’s beneficial about it is that someone’s paying attention to you for a whole hour—just to you.”

— I Used to Be Charming: The Rest of Eve Babitz

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I restarted reading actual books this year - rebuilding my tattered attention span page by page. What were your faves?

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“Eventually the party started up again. By then I had worked my way around to her part of the room and was rewarded with the following tableau vivant: blonde Marilyn was seated in an armchair. On one of its arms perched Carson McCullers, her brown hair chopped short and uneven as if she’d taken an ax to it, her body fierce in tomboy tension and twisted like a pretzel. Sitting in a chair on the other side of Marilyn-in-her-slip was Edwina-Williams-in-her-Hat. They were conversing with each other, all three with heads inclined.”

From Elaine Dundy’s autobiography - I’m not sure I will get over this mental image, that’s Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams’ mum and Marilyn Monroe chatting together at a party..

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“Some emotions never grow up; it always seems to be the same day with them.”

— Life Itself!: An Autobiography by Elaine Dundy

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2015: New Zealand holds a vote to change their flag due to its similarity to Australia's, leading to the submission of the 'Lazer Kiwi' flag. Designer Lucy Gray said her inspiration was that "Australia has a lot of animals that can kill you, so New Zealand should get one too"

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Medieval texts for young girls warning of the danger of vanity and looking in mirrors did not come play

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“I would love a math that engaged all the various perplexities of the person. Not to solve them so much as give them an abstracted form, an abstracted individuation, like an “x” or a “y,” that would allow one to move them around, see them from different angles. I guess that’s what writing provides.”

— My Lesbian Novel by Renee Gladman