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Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

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John Betjeman

One mark of good verse is surprise

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Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

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Norfolk would not be Norfolk without a church tower on the horizon or round a corner up a lane. We cannot spare a single Norfolk church. When a church has been pulled down the country seems empty or is like a necklace with a jewel missing.

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On out deathbeds we're not going to regret all the work we didn't do. We're going to regret all the sex we didn't have!

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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

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