Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.
Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.
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Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
Alasdair GrayYou, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.
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She is the swelling sail, trim rigging and bust sunlit deck of our matrimonial yacht. I am the low hull, with the invisible ballast and keel.
Alasdair GrayShe also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.
Alasdair GrayTags: love innuendo naughty wickedness promiscuity
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
Alasdair GrayMovement 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 babyward if we take no care to stop them.
Alasdair GrayTags: life death creation growth decay babies birth movement
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.
Alasdair GrayTags: words writing change goodness good articulation
I tried to scream like you once screamed God since I wanted to make the whole world faint but Harry Astley clapped his hand over my mouth O the sheer joy of feeling my teeth sink in.
Alasdair GrayTags: feminism frustration patriarchy
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 that pain: who make religions and politics, excuses to spread misery with fire and sword and how could I stop all this? I did not know what to do.
Alasdair GrayTags: politics progress change religion feminism frustration patriarchy
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