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The Well of Loneliness, Keith Carabine, Radclyffe Hall
Keith Carabine,Radclyffe Hall

The Well of Loneliness

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    Poison kills the body, but moral poison kills the soul.’
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    and retained its status as the ‘Lesbian bible’
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    Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
  • Sonia Zimahas quoted5 years ago
    However, the editor of the the Sunday Express, James Douglas, savagely attacked The Well: ‘I would rather give a healthy boy or girl a vial of prussic acid than this novel. Poison kills the body, but moral poison kills the soul.’
  • paolahas quoted5 years ago
    And she answered: ‘I’m dreadfully happy, Father. I’m so dreadfully happy that it makes me feel frightened, ’cause I mayn’t always last happy – not this way.’
  • paolahas quoted5 years ago
    She never got used to her mother’s beauty, it always surprised her each time she saw it; it was one of those queerly unbearable things, like the fragrance of meadow-sweet under the hedges.
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    as though she were conscious that one did not cough in front of a goddess like Anna.
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    Stephen would stand just a little behind her, thinking how gracious and lovely she was;
  • paolahas quoted5 years ago
    one time she had very much liked being read to, especially from books that were all about heroes; but now such stories so stirred her ambition, that she longed intensely to live them.
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    Up and down went the days; they resembled a swing that soared high above the tree-tops, then dropped to the depths, but seldom if ever hung midway.
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