His secret realisation of his physical cowardice led him to underrate his exceptional moral courage . . .
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The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those phantasies that surround authorship.Vera Brittain
There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
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The pacifists, task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.
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At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens -- women, workers and the members of subject races -- to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete.
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
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