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I don't expect you to understand me any more than I can understand you; but I respect you and that's the difference between us.

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I don't expect you to understand me any more than I can understand you; but I respect you and that's the difference between us.

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About Rumer Godden

Margaret Rumer Godden (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and non-fiction books. Nine of her works have been made into films, most notably Black Narcissus in 1947 and The River in 1951.
A few of her works were co-written with her elder sister, novelist Jon Godden, including Two Under the Indian Sun, a memoir of the Goddens' childhood in a region of India now part of Bangladesh.