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People like blowing things up these days, thought Len. They prefer blowing up to building.
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Faces, they have, those suburban people, faces and identity, despite their mortgages and their alarms: and there are few emotions more ignoble, more contemptible, than the terror that seizes such as myself when we drive, quickly, past their net curtained windows.
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I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.
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There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown; as though the notion of movement were inseparably connected with the notion of discovery, as though each displacement of the body were a displacement of the soul.
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You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.
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Human contact seemed to her so frail a thing that the hope that two people might want each other in the same way, at the same time and with the possibility of doing something about it, seemed infinitely remote.
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How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Margaret Drabble
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June 5, 1939
(age 85)
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