Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
Shirley Hazzard
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They walked off on the earthy path laughing not quite naturally for they could hardly help being pleased by the momentary attention of descending passengers and by their own almost meritorious youth.
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Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
- Shirley Hazzard