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Interrupting or talking over people. As a stammerer, I am particularly alert to this.
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View all 193 →Looking down at other people. I was brought up to treat people as you treat yourself, with respect. The people you meet on the way up are the people you meet on the way down.
Aggression. Anger. Rudeness. Intolerance. Lack of understanding. Pretty much your average day on X.
I’m irritated by critics and academics who dismiss poetry that is popular, comprehensible or humorous.
Careless cruelty.
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View profile →To keep going and never give up, and to enjoy it to the absolute full because, at any moment, the curtain can fall.
Darnella Frazier, the teenager who filmed George Floyd’s murder. It took astonishing courage to stand on the pavement in front of those policemen, and we all owe her so much.
“You’ll never walk again.” This was when I was eight or nine and recovering from viral encephalitis.
How long have you got? I have written a memoir and the subtitle is Seventeen Brushes with Death.
All my clothes are secondhand, but I did buy a pair of new silver Vivienne Westwood shoes to get married in, which I still have.
Last week, while I was wet-wrapping my child’s chronic eczema.
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