“I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath.”

— Wilkie Collins , book The Woman in White

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British writer 1824–1889

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