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“I liked all the children in my class. Back then, I think we all just tacitly assumed that we were equal. That we were all in the same boat. We didn’t really think about our different genders, races or classes. We just co-existed, like one big family.”

School Childhood Innocence

Book:The Little Voice

Source: The Little Voice

“Money this, money that. Only when they've cut down the last tree, poisoned the last river, and caught the last fish; will they realise they cannot eat their money.”

Money Greed Abstraction Environmentalism Environmental Conservation Consumer Culture

Book:Other Worlds Were Possible

Source: Other Worlds Were Possible

“My parents, you see, were a little square. They cared more about being good parents in the general sense than being good parents for me. They wanted to appear normal; respectable and responsible. But they weren’t prepared to acknowledge my individual needs.”

Psychology Parenting Parents Respectable Acknowledgement Special Needs Good Parents Individual Needs

Book:The Little Voice

Source: The Little Voice

“An hour seldom passed in which she didn’t either sneeze, pick her nose, or wipe a bogie onto her snot-encrusted sleeve. But she had such a lovely colour. That pink glow which comes with the flu used to engulf her like an aura. It suited her. She always looked so damn effervescent.”

Color Sick Sickness Flu Chronic Illness Glow Aura Sneeze Effervescent Pink Glow

Book:The Little Voice

Source: The Little Voice

“For me, dear reader, that place was purgatory incarnate; neither good nor bad, but a gateway to great rewards or even greater punishments.”

Reader Rewards Punishment Purgatory Incarnate Gateway

Book:The Little Voice

Source: The Little Voice

“I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality.”

Social Psychology Indoctrination Peer Pressure Brainwashing Workplace Politics Workplace Culture Indoctrination Quotes Peer Pressures

Book:The Little Voice

Source: The Little Voice

“The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it,” I offered tentatively. “It was very convincing.”

Psychology Mental Illness Convincing Mental Disorder Creature Psychology Of Self Imaginary Friends Imaginary Voices Suggested

Book:The Little Voice

Source: The Little Voice

“No thanky-you; you can't overcome hatred with more hatred. Force can kill the liar but not the lie, the hater but not the hate, and the violent but not the violence. Hate begets hate, violence begets violence, and war begets war.”

Quote Defence Ww1 Tribunal Conscientious Objector

Book:'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel

Source: 'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel

“God is British to the bone, and every fellow here knows it. You can't exploit him to save yourself, you blaspheming cadaverous-prig; you disgusting shambles of porcelain-skin, unwholesome-fat and puny-bones. Your blatant disregard for God's word shan't earn you any favours here!”

Quotes Insults Ww1 Tribunal Conscientious Objector

Book:'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel

Source: 'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel

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