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1 " People were, as he had long suspected, uniformly vile and rotten, vastly inferior to things. Objects never let you down. "
― Ruth Rendell , A Sight for Sore Eyes
2 " The sensations he had were shared by many of the young, poor and beautiful: how unfair it was that they should be denied benefits which the old and ugly enjoyed. "
3 " They remained the same and could be an endless source of pleasure and satisfaction. There might be people, or a person, of whom that was also true, but he had never, by the age of eighteen, come across any of them. "
4 " His school had been so committed to establishing equality that the staff told a pupil he or she had done well only if they could tell every other member of the class the same thing. "
5 " Was it possible people were heavier dead than alive? "