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Even in our deepest, most lasting friendships, we never speak as openly as when we face a blank page and address a reader we do not know.
The waitress was thin and wore too much make-up. The other customers were talking in loud voices, mainly about property and holidays. It gave me no satisfaction to be back among people like myself.
subscribed more and more to Toynbee’s idea that civilisations die not by murder but by suicide.

