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| cd3c0a8 | Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille. | mental outlook perspective | Frances Hodgson Burnett | |
| 248f44e | Neither my readers nor I are in the relatively sunlit uplands depicted in White Teeth anymore. But the lesson I take from this is not that the lives in that novel were illusory, but rather that progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and *reimagined* if it is to survive. | optimism outlook politics progress white-teeth | Zadie Smith |