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... he could not bring himself to hate the Germans.
But the Germans were there to be hated.

— John Edward Williams Stoner (1965)

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Do not tempt us with the poet's twisted pride.
Here is the double fact that we must grasp—
The sea is lonely and the land is wide.

The Broken Landscape: Poems (1949)

He went out of the office into the darkness of the long corridor and walked heavily into the sunlight, into the open world that was like a prison wherever he turned.

Stoner (1965)

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