Tuesday, 13 November 2012

He loves black people with a fuck of a lot of money

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I would like to say yeah, he [Kanye West*] was right but he wasn't ... I'm sure George Bush has a lot of black friends. He loves bla...
Monday, 12 November 2012

On the other hand, we were on acid

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You can't approach the White Panther party without a sense of humour .. I mean, on the one hand we were serious political revolutionar...
Friday, 9 November 2012

In break-up terms, the equivalent of piling his ex-lover's belongings in a heap and setting fire to them

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[Dylan] returned at Yarrow's urging for an acoustic encore of 'Mr Tambourine Man' and, telling, 'It's All Over Now, Bab...
Monday, 5 November 2012

At dawn the barbed wire was full of children’s washing hung out in the wind to dry

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The mothers stayed up to prepare the food for the journey with tender care, and washed their children and packed their luggage; and at dawn...
Friday, 2 November 2012

The principles of progress and reform had been those of wisdom and justice in every age of the world

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He [Dr Arnold] was, as he consistently declared, a Liberal. In his opinion, by the very constitution of human nature, the principles of prog...
Thursday, 1 November 2012

He could not withstand the last enchantment of the Middle Age

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If Newman had never lived, or if his father when the gig came round on the fatal morning, still undecided between the two Universities, had ...
Wednesday, 31 October 2012

I don’t say things have got worse; I merely say the young wouldn’t notice if they had

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When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret. Whe...