Famous quotes containing the words railway and/or receives:
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.”
—Anna C. Brackett (1836–1911)
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