Tag: memoir
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Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body
“So you’re unique and unusual, well done, now pop off and eat your banana.”
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One of Them
“No one here ever tells us out loud that we Etonians are natural leaders: that is what the architecture is for.”
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Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter
“A fortune cookie of joy and an education to what goes on behind closed doors in the nation’s favourite takeaway.”
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Staggering Hubris: The Memoir Of Boris Johnson’s Most Classic Spad: The ‘Rona Years, Vol. 1
“2019 was a year to celebrate! We overcame Corbyn and his Bolshevik revolution and successfully duped the northerners into thinking we care about them (lol) to win an enormous election victory; Brexit is in the oven/defrosting/ready to be put in the microwave at some point and we have Boris at the helm.”
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“What separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives. Yet the message of the right is increasingly: It’s not your fault that you’re a loser; it’s the government’s fault.”
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
“I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.”
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Noise Damage
“What follows is not another clichéd tale of rock ’n’ roll debauchery (sorry) or of triumph over adversity (you’re welcome) – you’ve heard all of that before. And you already know about ‘the other guys’ – that exalted one per cent who monopolise our airwaves, pages and screens; the guys who make the big bucks…
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How To Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong
“Living your life according to what everyone else might think of you is to cede control of who you are. It is to outsource your identity to a bunch of strangers who do not know you.”
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