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Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother’s house was filled with English books.
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The very best people are like that. They don’t entangle you like flypaper.
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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
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I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.
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I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
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To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
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Whenever I’m out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think.
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I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of something else: tigers for instance or oatmeal.
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Then when the fugitive word was least expecting it I would suddenly turn the full blaze of my attention back onto it catching the culprit in the beam of my mental torch before it could sneak off again into the darkness.
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