Olivia Mary Manning (2 March 1908 – 23 July 1980) was a British novelist, poet, writer, and reviewer.
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"'She’s just a typical bourgeois reactionary.’ ‘You mean, her prejudices are different from yours.'"
"An age of chivalry as outmoded as honour, as obsolete as truth."
"War meant a perpetual postponement of life, yet one did not cease to grow old."
"This was a world in which only the ignorant could be happy."
"Ignorance breeds fear. Tell people the truth. Trust them to keep their heads."