...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul destroying.
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- Author's profession: Author, Writer
- Nationality: english
- Born: October 28, 1903
- Died: April 10, 1966
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