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Quotes from The Sudden View — Sybille Bedford

1911–2006 England

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The Indians were delighted to accept a new god, but reluctant to relinquish many of the old ones.

The Sudden View (1953)

The descendants of the Aztecs sleeping on the pavements of Mexico City are paupers. We speak of poverty as being abject, extreme, dire, genteel; crippling, unmitigated, relative. It can be all of these, but it is always the last.

The Sudden View (1953)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sybille Bedford (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.