There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.
– David Nicholls
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- Familiarity, globalisation, cheap travel, mere weariness had diluted our sense of foreign-ness. – David Nicholls
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- Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them. – David Nicholls
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