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As children, she and Shirley had hated Christmas, for it had marked them out for the lepers that they were: outcasts, treeless, without kin, without comfort, without presents, without past. She preferred the densely populated world she had created, with all its problems.

— Margaret Drabble

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The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.

Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me, the ability to think in quotations.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

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