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I was beginning to see that my whole life had been a flight from the possibility of unearthing the sort of man I really was.

— Howard Spring A Sunset Touch (1953)

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To be the only possessor of news that will interest many people is always to be in a powerful position.

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"And there's so much gossip in the [countryside], Mr Menheniot. It makes a person uncomfortable."

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"In the long run, what do we have but our memories?"

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She had scuttled to earth like a beetle that knows it is in danger of being trodden on.

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There are men to whom a marriage is eternal and who are crippled for ever when it ends, largely, I think, because of the passion and completeness of their own contribution to it. They embark their all in one frail craft, and, if that goes, the wreck is total.

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