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0454474 That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it. house out-of-place worries worry Margaret Peterson Haddix
036e2f0 She had a strong, if erroneous, conviction of her own futility, and wished she had never come out of her backwater, where nothing happened except art and literature, and where no one ever got married or succeeded in remaining engaged. futility howards-end insecure out-of-place self-doubt society E.M. Forster
e0d7d64 He wanted to be a universal man . . . and I suppose that isn't possible now. He belongs in fifteenth-century Italy. This age doesn't suit him. old-soul out-of-place out-of-time the-message-to-the-planet Iris Murdoch
e82208d I felt so ashamed with them because everything in their life was going so well and they were so sort of successful. I couldn't talk about what I wanted with them and they were always in a hurry. inferiority iris-murdoch jealous not-wanted out-of-place outsider shame the-black-prince unspoken Iris Murdoch