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Between Margaret's fine-edged art and Gladys's rough simplicity, where did the greater feminine solace lie? True art, after all, is simple.

— Angus Wilson No Laughing Matter (1967)

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All writers know aspects of life that they take very much for granted, that yet to their readers appear peculiar, special.

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