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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories

by Alice Munro

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“On the whole it’s not wise to remind the devil that he’s the devil, especially when we were getting on so well.”
― Philip Kerr, The Lady from Zagreb

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“Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.”
― Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac

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“Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.”
― Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

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“Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can’t get out of it on your own.”
― Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood

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“Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.”
― V.S. Naipaul

tags: expectations, free-will, freedom, lack-of-vision, limitations, peer-pressure

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