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My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipate...more

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...He was wrong about the sadness though: far better to have it when you're young. A sad pretty girl inspires the urge to console, unlike a sad old cr...more

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I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it….By telling you anythin...more

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She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.