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How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

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Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.

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He looked like a piece of plot, standing there. An extra character, about to return to his mislaid car and his own life.

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Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

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The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
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Margaret Drabble

Margaret Drabble

Born: June 5, 1939 (age 86)
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