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You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.Alasdair Gray
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Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.Alasdair Gray
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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 Gray
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Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.Alasdair Gray
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Nature gives children great emotional resilience to help them survive the oppressions of being small, but these oppressions still make them into slightly insane adults, either mad to seize all the power they once lacked or (more usually) mad to avoid it.Alasdair Gray
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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 peopleAlasdair Gray
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Movement 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 Gray
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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 Gray