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..now, seated hunched over paper in a pool of Anglepoised light, I no longer want to be anything except what who I am. Who what am I? My answer: I am ...more

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Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person ...more

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Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, i...more

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Love, my child, is a thing that every mother learns; it is not born with a baby, but made; and for eleven years, I have learned to love you as my son.

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Once upon a time there was a mother who, in order to become a mother, had agreed to change her name; who set herself the task of falling in love with ...more

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The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors.

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When you pray for what you most want in the world, its opposite comes along with it. I was given a woman whom I truly loved and who truly loved me. Th...more

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He did not wish to be divine. If there had never been a God, the emperor thought, it might have been easier to work out what goodness was. This busine...more

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He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he had run clear out of his skin an...more

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...what a leveller this remote-control gizmo was...it chopped down the heavyweight and stretched out the slight until all the set's emissions, commerc...more

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If he believed in souls he would have said she had a good one.

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Maybe in the case of true human, their mind, their soul, their consciousness flows through their bodies like blood, inhabiting every cell of their phy...more

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She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding it in their memory, making it ...more