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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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