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Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. – Elizabeth Bowen

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