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“he chose a small paperweight containing a model of the cathedral that covered itself in glitter when he tipped it upside down. It struck him as strange but true that tourists bought trinkets and souvenirs of religious places because they…

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“IT HAD NEVER been such a beautiful May. Every day the sky shone a peerless blue, untouched by cloud. Already, the gardens were crammed with lupins, roses, delphiniums, honeysuckle, and lime clouds of lady’s mantle. Insects cricked, hovered, bumbled, and whizzed. Harold passed fields of buttercups, poppies, ox-eye daisies, clover, vetch, and campion. The hedgerows were sweetly scented with bowing…

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After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges.

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“He walked so surely it was as if all his life he had been waiting to get up from his chair.”

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He must have driven this way countless times, and yet he had no memory of the scenery. He must have been so caught up…

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“He saw the reflection of her face in a compact mirror as she painted on her re lips. She did it with such care,…

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“I can't explain why I think I can get there, when all the odds are against me. But I do. Even when a big…

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“It wasn’t just 1) the artwork and sleeve notes on the album sleeve. It wasn’t 2) the possibility of a hidden track, or a…

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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a…

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“He wished the man would honor the true meaning of words, instead of using them as ammunition.”

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“We are at the centre of our own stories. And sometimes it is hard to believe that we are not at the centre of…

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I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not - the…

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Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways. You could think you were starting something afresh, when actually what you were doing…

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