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- #81
- Posted: 10/07/2024 06:15
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"Every member of our family is studied like a rat in a laboratory." - The President - by Parker Hudson
page 45, sentence 6
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neilgee
The longer i'm retired the better i used to play
Gender: Male
Age: 65
Location: Manchester 
- #82
- Posted: 10/07/2024 21:27
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Of course he didn't really have to know everything: he looked at the patch hovering on the ceiling; you can't know everything in the world; whatever happens you'll die a fool.
Strawberry Jam - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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- #83
- Posted: 10/08/2024 11:19
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"So far, they hadn't fully succeeded, but he knew it was just a short time until they completely controlled the whole population's freedom of movement." - The Return by Richard and Linda Nathan
page 40, sentence 9
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neilgee
The longer i'm retired the better i used to play
Gender: Male
Age: 65
Location: Manchester
- #84
- Posted: 10/08/2024 14:13
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All right, lick the bastard's boots, see if I care!
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
86;3
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- #85
- Posted: 10/09/2024 16:20
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"I think of Gloria, the fifty-six-year-old who is on marriage number four, sobbing on my shoulder, "If only I could find a man to love me!" - Girls Gone Wise in a World Gone Wild by Mary A. Kassian
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neilgee
The longer i'm retired the better i used to play
Gender: Male
Age: 65
Location: Manchester
- #86
- Posted: 10/09/2024 18:55
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I am old, I am old,
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
The Wasteland and other Poems - TS Eliot.
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- #87
- Posted: 10/09/2024 19:15
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"It took a little time, but I realized that she had been shattered by the effects of a broken marriage and being thrust into the role of sole provider for her children" - Escaping the Racism of Low Expectations by Barbara From Harlem
page 35, sentence 4
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neilgee
The longer i'm retired the better i used to play
Gender: Male
Age: 65
Location: Manchester
- #88
- Posted: 10/09/2024 19:36
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'Maggie, Maggie' continued the mother, in a tone of half-coaxing fretfulness, as this small mistake of nature entered the room, 'where's the use o' my telling you to keep away from the water?'.
The Mill on The Floss by George Eliot
41;4
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- #89
- Posted: 10/09/2024 21:03
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"It began for me on January 22, 2015, when I appeared on the Today Show on NBC---ironically, interviewed by Matt Lauer, who three years later was fired by NBC for "inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace"---and said the following:
"I've never seen her, I've never met her....She is categorically lying....and making the whole thing up....I am afraid of nothing." - Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the age of #MeToo by Alan Dershowitz
long sentence
page 40, sentence 8
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neilgee
The longer i'm retired the better i used to play
Gender: Male
Age: 65
Location: Manchester
- #90
- Posted: 10/10/2024 10:32
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The reality is that most psychopaths have no idea why they are the way they are and they certainly don't think they are the ones with a problem.
Taming Toxic People by David Gillespie
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