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  • Get your teeth into a small slice — the cake of …

    Andy Strange

    26 August 2017

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    “Get your teeth into a small slice — the cake of liberty” From “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll” by Ian Dury

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  • I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy wi…

    Andy Strange

    22 June 2017

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    “I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.” From “A Murder of Quality” by John le Carré

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  • I find it hard to understand how anyone who cares …

    Andy Strange

    25 September 2016

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    “I find it hard to understand how anyone who cares about Britain’s economic prosperity could remain a Tory.” Nicola Horlick

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  • for liberty is a better husband than love to many…

    Andy Strange

    14 February 2016

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    “…for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.” — Louisa May Alcott

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  • How terrible to live surrounded by the stark sharp…

    Andy Strange

    23 April 2015

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    How terrible to live surrounded by the stark sharp hollowness of things that simply were enough. — Patrick Rothfuss – The Slow Regard of Silent Things

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  • Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, Like…

    Andy Strange

    26 May 2014

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    Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust,Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust. — John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, Act V Scene V

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  • A politician is a great dirty ear attached to a mu…

    Andy Strange

    1 February 2014

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    A politician is a great dirty ear attached to a muscular and responsive tongue and controlling a big pointing finger. You say this so I say this and so then this goes there, okay? — Toby Litt

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  • Young I drank beer & vomited green bile Old…

    Andy Strange

    21 December 2013

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    Young I drank beer & vomited green bile Older drank wine vomited blood red Now I vomit air — Maturity by Allen Ginsberg

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  • A progressive is someone who wants to see society …

    Andy Strange

    22 November 2013

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    A progressive is someone who wants to see society reorganised part by part and step by step so that ordinary men and women have a better chance to live a larger life. — Roberto Unger

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