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The result of the rebuilding was a maze of crooked stairways, claustrophobic passages, abrupt dangerous ramps and Alice in Wonderland doors. Most of the smaller rooms were overcrowded, under-ventilated, separated only by plywood partitions and lit by naked bulbs hanging from wires. Everything was provisional, and liable to electrocute you, fall on your head, or come apart in your hand.

— Christopher Isherwood Prater Violet (1945)

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He might, in certain situations, accept them as allies but he could never regard them as comrades.

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I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.

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Once I have refused to press that button because of Heinz, I can never press it.

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The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.

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'We don't think enough [about the lot] of the other fellow, and that's a fact.'

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