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"Every so often there's a generation likes us, Ian. Our only raison d'être to be blown to pieces in a war we imagine we believe in ideologically."

— Paul Scott A Male Child (1956)

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"Time is quick. Life is short."

A Male Child (1956)

"I kept myself very much to myself, as one does if one is old and doesn't much care for the people round about."

A Male Child (1956)

He relapsed into a silence in which his hopes scattered like mice into holes.

A Male Child (1956)

I was surprised, as one is, I think, whenever the tenuous thread of one's life suddenly connects, as friends, people one would have thought strangers.

A Male Child (1956)

How ignorant one is when faced with essential practical matters. How they trick and trap you into holes and corners.

A Male Child (1956)

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