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“Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.”
“Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.”
“You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.”
“One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.”
“People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people”
“Nature gives children great emotional resilience to help them survive the oppressions of being small, but these oppressions still make them into slightly insane adults, either mad to seize all the ...”
“Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyw...”
“I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for the helpless sick small, who use religions and politics to stay comfortably superior to all th...”