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"The trouble is, Richard, that you always think you can alter people. You say, Oh, yes, he's a little weak and I can't stand the way he hums to himself when he's shaving but when we live together I'll change that, we'll grow together, but you never do. All that happens is that the little things are symptomatic of bigger things and they become more and more important."

— Christopher Wood Terrible Hard", Says Alice (1970)

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I'd like to impregnate her with a warm smile, listen to my children call her "mummy", be a comfort to her in her old age.

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Everyone was mad only some of them didn't know it.

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An Oxford man walks down the street and thinks that he owns it, a Cambridge man walks down the street and doesn't give a toss who owns it.

One day, thought Stone, there will be a war and when you get to the front you will last five minutes before someone puts a bullet in your back.

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I really am interested but I find it hard to make the proper helpful noises. I'm terrible inadequate when it comes to sympathy. I feel things but I can't express them in words.

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