It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, … - Margery Allingham

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Sometimes over the years, you know, things come to surface.

Margery Allingham

It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.

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