“There can be no progress without confrontation”
- Love, Poverty and War by Christopher Hitchens

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“Loretta loved libraries as much as she loved schools. Places of learning were her favourite kind of church—made sacred by the knowledge within their walls.
- The Devil and Mrs Davenport by Paulette Kennedy

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"No ship that ever sailed brought England such disaster."
- The White Ship by Charles Spencer

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“It’s safer knowing more about people than they know about you.”
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

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“The most futile thing a man can do is to ponder the alternatives, to stew and fret over the life that might have been lived...”
- The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron

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“There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life”
- An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

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"There were no seasons there, no days of the week, no night and day; beyond that, there was (or was supposed to be) no youth and age."
- The Nowhere City by Alison Lurie

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“We've all got things to cry about. Don't you think I could drown the world with tears if I started on my own woes?”
- A Word Child by Iris Murdoch

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“But what is the imagination for if not to grasp how the world feels to those who don't think what you think?”
- The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson

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“The oracle warned that I would lose myself, but the opposite is true. I am more myself than I have ever been. I am wild, I am free…”
- Atalanta by Jennifer Saint

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"I planted a dog rose... The garden had begun. I saw it as a therapy and a pharmacopoeia."
- Pharmacopoeia by Derek Jarman

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#lgbt
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“Depression is about anger, it is about anxiety, it is about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity..."
- The Scent of Dried Roses by Tim Lott

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“This is ours for the moment, but no more. While we are in it we bring it life. When we have gone it no longer exists, it fades into anonymity.”
- Don't Look Now and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier

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“...the story of the city was always a story of disintegration.”
- The Doloriad by Missouri Williams

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#feminist

“There is still a real life to be lived, there are still real things to be done.”
- No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

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“I dragged myself here with the very last of my strength because I wanted to die in your company."
- Inhuman Land by Jósef Czapski

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“Nothing is good here. Nothing. Every place you go on Earth, there is more nonsense.”
- Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh

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“Theatre is always a self-destructive art, and it is always written on the wind.”
- The Empty Space by Peter Brook

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“I'm not wise, but I read a lot of novels.”
- The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

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“I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.”
- POPism by Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett

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#art