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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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