May 2013
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Nowadays my political militancy consists of sitting in front of the news saying ‘Bastards!’ periodically. Take UKIP for example. They’re like a fly in amber: nobody cares about the fly; only question is, ‘How the devil did the bastards get there?’ Then again, as far as I can tell I hate the lot of them, all British politicians, with their forced-down Greggs and shit-eating grins. Be thankful that...
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“It’s for the touch, for the touch. After all we are only human beings down here...”
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confession: i really love the film dirty dancing
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“I used to think of marriage as a plate-glass window just begging for a brick....”
– Jeanette Winterson - from Written on the Body.
aastrolatry asked: How is your novel coming along?
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Flee the crowd. Follow Orwell. Be perverse.
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“What makes human beings laugh? Not just gaiety or irony. That laughter banishes...”
– Martin Amis - War Against Cliche - Nabokov’s Grand Slam
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I had three handjobs yesterday. None was easy. Sometimes you really have to buckle down to it, as you do with all forms of exercise. It’s simply a question of willpower. Anyone who’s got the balls to stand there and tell me that a handjob isn’t exercise just doesn’t know what he’s talking about. I almost had a heart-attack during number three. I take all kinds of other exercise too. I walk up and...
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April 2013
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What a lot of people don’t understand is that if you look at things internationally, strictly from an economic perspective, that makes you a shit.
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you know what’s embarrassing? when you look through a keyhole and see another eye.
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“‘Faith.’
‘Here, Mrs Ape.’
‘Charity.’
...”
– Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies
“Drinking alphabetically / ‘cause the beauty’s gone all sore”
– Fionn Regan - Abacus (via sisterswallow)
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Oh God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space - were it not that I have bad dreams
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Anonymous asked: There are 720 ways to organize your reading list. I find it very interesting to keep in mind before making your choice. Also, choosing Notes from the Underground first reduces those ways to 120, but then again, so does Player Piano..
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because lists are still sexy. today I:
woke up and incredulously found money in my wallet. meaning I got deliciously drunk (enough to dance like a maniac even) on around £12.50. spent the day frowning and rubbing my head marvelling how.
do you know? was it you buying me all those drinks? thanks.
had Weetabix, strawberries with lashing of honey drizzled all over, with a huge pot of tea and about half a loaf of toast for breakfast....
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okay you pretty things. what do i read next?
In Cold Blood - Capote
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Identity - Milan Kundera
Player Piano - Vonnegut
Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Known Never to Have Sent Another Man to a Dictionary Hemingway
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I don’t really blame you for being dead but you can’t have your sweater back.
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