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“What a great difference there is,' she said, 'between dreaming of something and dealing with it!”
― Another Country
― Another Country

“And if it's children you're after, well, you can do that in five minutes and you you haven't got to love anybody to do it. If all the children who get here every year were brought here by love, wow! baby, what a bright world this would be!”
― Another Country
― Another Country

“The blacks now suspected him of being an ally—though not a friend, never a friend!”
― Another Country
― Another Country

“The aim of the dreamer, after all, is merely to go on dreaming and not be molested by the world. His dreams are his protection against the world. But the aims of life are antithetical to those of the dreamer, and the teeth of the world are sharp.”
― Another Country
― Another Country

“There were so many things one did not dare to know. And were they all patiently waiting, like demons in the dark, to spring from hiding, to reveal themselves, on some rainy Sunday morning?”
― Another Country
― Another Country

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