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“Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, and trim, remove every superfluous word, compress, compress, compress... Actually, when you think about…

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…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

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“When they – I cannot bring myself to use the first-person plural in this instance.”

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I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.

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I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which…

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I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.

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“I took her outside on to a little roof terrace that looked like it never got the sun at nay time of the day…

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“I feel as though I have been having conversations like this all my life. None of us is young anymore, but what has just…

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“I'm OK. Really. I can find people. I'll be all right.”

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“Read any women's magazine and you'll see the same complaint over and over again: men - those little boys ten or twenty or thirty…

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