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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.

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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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