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The Quiet American
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Raymond Williams
“But a father is more than a person, he’s in fact a society, the thing you grow up into.”
Raymond Williams, Border Country

Raymond Williams
“There’s only one real politics, and that’s politics on a weekly wage. All the rest, well. We can all talk.”
Raymond Williams, Border Country

Raymond Williams
“The chapels are for people to meet, and to talk to each other or sing together. Around them, as you know, moves almost the whole life of the village. That, really, is their religion.”
Raymond Williams, Border Country

Raymond Williams
“When you’re young,’ Harry said, ‘you just see things. There’s nothing much to say about them. You don’t realize then all the life that’s gone into it.”
Raymond Williams, Border Country

Raymond Williams
“For here was the station, by the asylum: both on the outskirts, where the Victorians thought they belonged.”
Raymond Williams, Border Country

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