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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
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[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct…
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Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they…
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I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with…
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Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.
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Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes…
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Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.
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Perhaps I need some shattering experience to awaken and inspire me, or at least to give me some emotion to recollect in…
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Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot.…
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I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.
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Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there...
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I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.
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Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct…
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But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.…
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All my aunts in the Phillipines, they look at me and say 'Darreeeeeen! You so thin! Eat!'
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Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts ... their…
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I felt like I was an outsider. I think what happened to me made me develop this street sense of watching people…
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I used to be Amish. I had to stay a lot with my grandparents or aunts and uncles who are Amish, so…
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It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group…
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I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split…
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