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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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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Margaret Drabble
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June 5, 1939
(age 85)
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