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Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.
Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.
Approximate author period: c. 1980 AD · modern
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- Christopher Hitchens
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- Approximate author period: c. 1980 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1949 to 2011; Wikidata Q49081, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49081 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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