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Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me remember that knowledge must be pursued for its own sake and please, please stop me wanting to beat Verena Plackett in the exams.' She prayed hard and she meant what she said. But God was busy that autumn as the International Brigade came back, defeated, from Spain, Hitler's bestialities increased, and sparrows everywhere continued to fall.

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To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make waggi…

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When you're sad, my Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.

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Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.

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She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelli…

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Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it.

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The sisters worked from dawn to dusk. One of them was an idiot; she started shaving her legs and marrying tax inspectors, so she was no good.

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Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

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I want to live like music sounds."- Ruth

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And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than tha…

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