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our dispassionate acceptance of attrition...[can] be matched by a full use of everything that has ever happened in all the long wonderful-ghastly years to free a person's mind from his body.
our dispassionate acceptance of attrition...[can] be matched by a full use of everything that has ever happened in all the long wonderful-ghastly years to free a person's mind from his body.
Approximate author period: c. 1950 AD · modern
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- M.F.K. Fisher
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- Approximate author period: c. 1950 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for M. F. K. Fisher: life dates 1908 to 1992. Wikidata Q272889, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272889 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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