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Quotes from On the Edge of the Cliff: Short Stories — V. S. Pritchett

1900–1997 England

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In her businesslike way she thought that her life had begun when she was a very young woman and she really did look lovely: you knew it wouldn't last and you packed all you could into it — but men were different. A man like B — like Alfie, too — never got beyond the time when they were boys and, damn them, it kept them young.

On the Edge of the Cliff: Short Stories (1979)

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