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Antonia White
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“... she was one of those children who cannot help behaving well.”
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“Catholicism isn't a religion, it's a nationality.”
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“It's only a dogma that hells exists; it isn't a dogma that there's anybody in it.”
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“Another world, / Its walls are thin, / But, oh, I cannot / Enter in. / I feel its touch, / I breathe its air, / How long before / I enter there?”
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“Two hands are better than four sometimes.”
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“Her greedy black eyes and the way she held her head on one side made her look as if she were always guessing the price of something.”
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“She could not say whether being with this man was like finding something new or rediscovering something forgotten.”
Antonia White, English writer, diarist
(1899 - 1980)
Real name: Eirene Botting.