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'She’s just a typical bourgeois reactionary.’ ‘You mean, her prejudices are different from yours.'

— Olivia Manning

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An age of chivalry as outmoded as honour, as obsolete as truth.

Ignorance breeds fear. Tell people the truth. Trust them to keep their heads.

War meant a perpetual postponement of life, yet one did not cease to grow old.

Was there any more repellent sight than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so much more splendid than herself?

The Spoilt City (1962)

This was a world in which only the ignorant could be happy.

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