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Variante: ¿Por qué cree que abrir una librería es inverosímil?-le gritó al viento-. ¿La gente de Hadborough no quiere comprar libros?
-Han perdido el deseo por las cosas raras -dijo (...)-. (...) Y no me diga usted que los libros no constituyen una rareza en sí mismos. (La librería)
The Blue Flower
Penelope Fitzgerald: Frases en inglés
Innocence (1986)
Contexto: He struggled to keep his temper. It struck him that both Marta and Chiara took advantage of him by attacking him with their ignorance, or call it innocence. A serious thinking adult had no defence against innocence because he was obliged to respect it, whereas the innocent scarcely knows what respect is, or seriousness either.
“There are dilettantes in human relationships just as there are, let's say, in politics.”
Innocence (1986)
“Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure, short of total abstention.”
Human Voices (1980)