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"I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable."

Pamela Hansford Johnson, English Critic

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"I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable."

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"I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable."

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