All writers all people have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory. (V. S. Pritchett)

All writers all people have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.

V. S. Pritchett

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