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You’re my only friend who might understand, don’t let me down. If I’m disrespectful it’s because it’s important and not a game anyone can play.
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… scholarship is a small redress against the vast unreason of what is taken from us--it’s not just the worthless that perish, Jesus doesn’t save.
Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love, Grove Press, 1997, pp. 71.
Read a review of The Invention of Love by The New Yorker, including a brief biography of A.E. Housman: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/02/19/lost-horizon
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