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The rest of the church was filled with men and women to whom the war had made different gifts, giving to this a death, to another new life, to this one money. There were many people in Danesacre whom the war had fed full with money. Perhaps they came here to thank someone for it.

There is a moment when the gull, turning, to sweep sideways and downward to the surface of the water, makes a movement of such perfection that it can scarcely be watched without tears.

English people won't pay out good money to read uncomfortable truths.

A bad Treaty doesn't settle anything—except the causes of the next war.

Have I read enough Virago Modern Classics this year? Hard to say.