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No human bond is closer than that of a mother and son eating Mars bars in a shelter overlooking the beach in Teignmouth in the wet summer of 1973. Around us Britain was slipping into political and social despair. The IRA were blowing up
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“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
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“He would be expressing himself from the depths of long days of meditation and suffering, the image that he wanted to communicate having been long tempered in the fire of waiting and passion. The other person, meanwhile, imagined a conventional emotion, the suffering that is hawked around the marketplace, a mass-produced melancholy.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“If I’d stayed there, would I always have been happy? No, I suppose not. People move away, grow older, die, and the bright belief that there will be another marvelous thing around each corner fades. It is now or never; we must snatch at happiness as it flies.”
― A Month in the Country
― A Month in the Country
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