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The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings.
Peter Abrahams
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"The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings."
— Peter Abrahams

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The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of violently angry tensions, of desperate and overwhelming longings. — Peter Abrahams

About Peter Abrahams

Peter Abrahams was a Novelist from South Africa (1919–2017).

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This quote is attributed to Peter Abrahams, a Novelist from South Africa.
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Peter Abrahams lived from 1919 – 2017.