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1 " When you go out first on your own. When you marry and settle. When your father dies. When your son leaves home. "
― Raymond Williams , Border Country
2 " When you’re young,’ Harry said, ‘you just see things. There’s nothing much to say about them. You don’t realize then all the life that’s gone into it. "
3 " That a life lasts longer than the actual body through which it moves. "
4 " The visitor sees beauty; the inhabitant a place where he works and has his friends. "
5 " He’s studying Wales,’ Eira said, ‘and he goes to London to do it. "
6 " But a father is more than a person, he’s in fact a society, the thing you grow up into. "
7 " The chapels are for people to meet, and to talk to each other or sing together. Around them, as you know, moves almost the whole life of the village. That, really, is their religion. "
8 " You don’t speak to people in London, he remembered; in fact you don’t speak to people anywhere in England; there is plenty of time for that sort of thing on the appointed occasions – "
9 " For here was the station, by the asylum: both on the outskirts, where the Victorians thought they belonged. "
10 " There’s only one real politics, and that’s politics on a weekly wage. All the rest, well. We can all talk. "