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“Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.”

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I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.

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Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

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When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts,…

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“But that's a way to go on loving--a place, or a person. To miss it. In fact, to go away, to put yourself in…

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“I see that you are highly defensive." . . . Caro said, "I withhold my analysis of your own attitude.”

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“... although the sufferings of children are the worst, being inextinguishable--children themselves seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping…

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“I said, "Some people do know more than others. That contributes to the impression that someone, somewhere,knows the whole thing." [p. 38]”

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“Dark had meant Dora, had meant words and events sordid with self. Struggling to the light from Dora's darkness, Caro had acquired conscience and…

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“Sometimes, as now, her heart twisted and broke under his determination to wound her. At others, she was almost convinced that she felt nothing…

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“Chief Coordinator of DALTO – the Department of Aid to the Less technically Oriented, working to induce backwards nations to come forwards.”

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“Occasion revived an illusion of discovery, as if one woke in a strange room to wonder afresh not only where but who one was;…

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