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Snapshots of a shattered family
Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph (London)
Egoism |
Book excerpt: I Know You're Going to be Happy.My mother's professional morality was pragmatic: poverty and principles go together, she would say cynically. She didn't believe it in her private life - where she was one of the most stubbornly principled people I have ever met - but she had an embattled sense of the world out there being a hard, cold place in which everyone had to fight their own corner and nurture their own interests. There was a touch of Ayn Rand in this, I have to admit, and I don't think that among her generation it was at all uncommon.
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