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  I know that Robert Lowell got into terrible trouble for quoting private letters in his poetry, but all this happened abroad, so let me quote a phrase from it: ‘The earthquake was awful.

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  Perhaps the simplest way to conclude this section is to quote the words of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons who wrote in his annual report for 1986:

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  To close, I should like to quote from a source that especially some of us find more authoritative than a business man.

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