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#1. Her mind still worked, her feet still moved, she could walk, though only with the help of a walker, but walk she did, and she was a human being who knew for certainty that beans are best in salad and that old age is a terrible calamity.

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#2. As an outsider I was free to pick my own literary traditions, to build my own system of literary values.

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#3. Language was a weapon, after all: it branded, it betrayed, it separated and united.

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#4. The invisibility in which we live next to one another is appalling, Kukla thought.

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#5. money has no nationality, only people do, and generally speaking those are people who have nothing else.

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#6. You're as handsome as Apollo, you don't pick your nose, you're not stingy and you don't talk too much. There's nothing at all the matter with you!' announced Pupa in the tone of a doctor who was a hundred per cent sure of her diagnosis.

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