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Children ... seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world. - Shirley Hazzard
Attribution: Shirley Hazzard (b. 1931), Australian–American author. The Bay of Noon, ch. 1 (1970).

Categories: Author, Children

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