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- It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery…
- If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.
- Women say . . . that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world. . . . I…
- That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would…
- I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the…
- The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up
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