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- Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger…
- It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense…
- It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.…
- I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath…
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