‘Your writing even then is tinged with the dark ironies of a political system that employs grim euphemisms like ‘separate development’ and ‘white by night’.’
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‘Reality, as defined by novelists, seemed to consist of being of a certain class in a certain city, experiencing certain emotions and situations.’