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frankie
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60s manic pixie dream girl criteria : suffering, soul, and tits
— Nov 19, 2024 03:47AM
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frankie
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i feel like a group of teenage boys just spat on me
— Nov 15, 2024 03:32PM
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Moon Captain
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Hey this is actually really lively and funny and good haha
— Mar 24, 2023 09:51PM
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W.D. Clarke
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‘One thing about parents. They fug you up.’
‘Do you think they mean to?’
‘They may not. But they do, don’t they?’
‘Yeah, but it’s not really their fault, is it?’
‘You mean like in Zola – because they were fugged up in their turn by their parents.’
‘Good point. But you’ve got to blame them a bit, haven’t you? I mean, for not realising they were being fugged up, and going on & doing it to us as well?’
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— Oct 01, 2022 07:29AM
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‘Do you think they mean to?’
‘They may not. But they do, don’t they?’
‘Yeah, but it’s not really their fault, is it?’
‘You mean like in Zola – because they were fugged up in their turn by their parents.’
‘Good point. But you’ve got to blame them a bit, haven’t you? I mean, for not realising they were being fugged up, and going on & doing it to us as well?’
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W.D. Clarke
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French writers were always fighting one another – defending and purifying the language, ousting slang words, writing prescriptive dictionaries, getting arrested, being prosecuted for obscenity, being aggressively Parnassian, scrabbling for seats in the Académie, intriguing for literary prizes, getting exiled. The idea of the sophisticated tough...
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— Sep 30, 2022 07:51AM
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Nita
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After the brilliant "My Name Is Red", I was all set to read "War and Peace" but I soon found out that I was neither in the mood for it nor did I enjoy holding it lying on my side. And then I found another Julian Barnes in my bookshelf! I love his "The Sense of an Ending" so I look forward to the reading experience of "Metroland."
— Jan 29, 2021 02:05AM
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Christina Rochester
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Metroland Part II (1977)
— Nov 21, 2020 04:58AM
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Christina Rochester
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8. Sex Austerity War Austerity
— Nov 19, 2020 01:16PM
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