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      "text": "Not like those of their children who later got caught up in the entangled web of industrialisation. Adah’s Ma had no experience of having to keep up mortgage payments: she never knew what it was to have a family car, or worry about its innards; she had no worries about pollution, the population explosion or race. Was it surprising, therefore, that she was happy, being unaware of the so-called joys of civilisation and all its pitfalls?”",
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      "text": "Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then did they claim to be superior?",
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      "text": "Marriage is lovely when it works, but if it does not, should one condemn oneself ? I stopped feeling guilty for being me.",
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      "text": "You must know, my dear young lady, that in Lagos you may be a million publicity officers for the Americans; you may be earning a million pounds a day; you may have hundreds of servants: you may be living like an elite, but the day you land in England, you are a second-class citizen.”",
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      "text": "She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost.",
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      "text": "She did not delude herself into expecting Francis to love her. He had never been taught how to love, but had an arresting way of looking pleased at Adah's achievements.",
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      "text": "Did she not feel totally fulfilled when she had completed the manuscript, just as if it were another baby she had had?",
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