Matthew McGuinness

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[NPRG @CptHastings1916]

Men will literally settle in remote villages and go for long night walks agonising about how best to communicate their experience of the trenches, while writing short stories, adopting semi-tame owls, and drinking pints of locally brewed mild, instead of going to therapy.

[Shine the Light Ministries @STLightMin]

"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.” — John Greenleaf Whittier

#Quotes #ReadingCommunity #QuoteOfTheDay #Books

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@dgjones George VI, Elizabeth II, Charles III, William V.

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@ClassicFM @andrew_skeet

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@ClassicFM The Heavens are Telling by Haydn. You just can't keep a choir from racing away with it. Levels of excitement akin to Zadok the Priest and the Hallelujah Chorus.

[Brigit Strawbridge @B_Strawbridge]

Downs and Water Meadows - linocut by English printmaker, Robert Tavener

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[Chelsea Patterson Sobolik @ChelsPat]

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“Longing for Motherhood” turns six this week.

It is truly the honor of a lifetime to have written this book, to share my story, and to remind others walking through childlessness that they aren’t alone.

[Joanna Maciejewska @AuthorJMac]

You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction.
I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

I know I'm in a minority when I say my favorite Jane Austen novel is Persuasion. It is more subdued than Pride & Prejudice or Emma. Yet the maturity of its story & the underlying passion, especially Capt. Wentworth's letter, strike a deeper chord with me.
I loved the '95 film too

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@SoVeryBritish Pronunciation of Shrewsbury.

[Benjamin Carlson @bfcarlson]

Paradoxes of storytelling:

1. The paradox of censorship: The more authorities try to suppress a story, the more irresistible it becomes.

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@bfcarlson Toru Takemitsu (anything), Benjamin Britten (eg Lachrymae), Olivier Messiaen (eg Turangalila Symphony), Thomas Ades (eg In Seven Days).

[Rodney Marshall @RodneyMarshall1]

So many of the so-called 'villains' in Gideon's Way are themselves damaged victims, adding layers to the terrific storylines and guest characters. It is these guests who dominate the screentime, rather than Commander Gideon and his police officers. Such a great series, IMO.

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@wylfcen @theanglishtimes Ganggeteld is a portable tent in Old English. Maybe some diminutive of that.

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@elonmusk I have a stupid question but I'm sure there"s a very simple answer. Why can't spaceships come back through the atmosphere slowly and avoid getting hot?

[Rodney Marshall @RodneyMarshall1]

Andrew Pulver: "S&S was deeply disturbing: even now, some 30 years after first watching it, I can still remember the terror inspired by one S&S nasty, a faceless being that exists only in old photographs. Having now seen it again, I can confirm that it is still extraordinary."

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@RodneyMarshall1 I love Patrick Allen's cameo as Rushton in The Wild Geese. "If his back were any straighter his spine would snap," says Roger Moore's character Shawn Fynn.

[The Dreadnoughts @TheDreadnoughts]

My 4 year old kid just started singing a shanty he made up called "Rolling Down To Snake Island ".

Is it wrong to steal intellectual property from a small child? Let's find out!

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@SoVeryBritish Lymeswold is not enough

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@The_Globe All six mechanicals from A Midsummer Night's Dream: Peter Quince, Snug, Nick Bottom, Francis Flute, Tom Snout and Robin Starveling.