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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. - [Duty] Our accepting what we must always inhibits our being what we ought to be. - [Acceptance] The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here. - [Journalism] We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words. - [Poetry] Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation. - Daniel Martin [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay--Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg--and a person of curiosity could at once have deduced several strong probabilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustery morning in the late March of 1867. - The French Lieutenant's Woman [Books (First Lines)] BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria. - The Magus [Books (First Lines)]
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