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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. out-of-place worry house worries 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 self-doubt howards-end insecure out-of-place 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. out-of-time out-of-place the-message-to-the-planet old-soul 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. jealous not-wanted out-of-place the-black-prince iris-murdoch outsider unspoken inferiority shame Iris Murdoch