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c219323
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Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend!
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pulitzer-prize
social-criticism
hypocrisy
new-york
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Edith wharton |
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0548d78
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A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.
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fame
social-criticism
society
values
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Max Frisch |
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ecd59bf
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Or as my dad always says: it only becomes a social problem when the working man joins in.
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lower-class
working-class
rivers-of-london
peter-grant
social-problems
social-criticism
hypocrisy
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Ben Aaronovitch |
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e59fe4f
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Sure enough, standing with their backs to the hall fire, were Aunt Sadie, Aunt Emily, and a small, fair, and apparently young man. My immediate impression was that he did not seem at all like a husband. He looked kind and gentle.
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marriage
satirical-humour
social-criticism
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Nancy Mitford |