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Your soul craves truth, beauty, wonder, love. Your soul craves to dream, to imagine, and even simply to understand. Your soul craves to connect, to commune, to create.

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My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.

Family, Father, Jobs, Mean, Respectable, Support
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Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

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If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

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England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place. . . an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

Authoritarian, Insulting, Intolerant, Racist, Run, Running

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

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Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first.

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