“"Don’t preach," said Florentine violently. She was beginning to see the maze of lies and deceptions that lay before her.”

—  Gabrielle Roy , book The Tin Flute

Source: The Tin Flute (1945), P.344

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French Canadian fiction writer 1909–1983

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