Rebecca Stott

(1964) University Teacher

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Rebecca Stott is an university teacher.

Quick Facts About Rebecca Stott

Born: January 1, 1964
Profession: University Teacher

About Rebecca Stott

[Wikidata] British writer... | [Wikipedia] Rebecca Stott is a British writer and broadcaster and, until her retirement from teaching in 2021, was Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2021.

Quotes by Rebecca Stott

“Isn't it always unfair - death always a kind of outrage? A life ended too soon with jagged and torn edges, a…

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Death

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“Paris is an ocean," a lawyer called Honoré said to me in a bar on the place Vendôme later that night. We…

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Cities-spaces-places

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“Beyond this point on the river Cambridge became a kind of miniature Venice, its river water lapping up against the ancient stone…

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Cities-spaces-places

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“It's only when you've pieced together a story in several different ways that you realise where the holes are, discover the knowledge…

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Different ways

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“Stepping into the smell of a long-abandoned aple crop, Cameron called towards the house, hoping to catch his mother's attention in the…

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“On July 29, six days after I had arrived in Paris, Fin and I moved into the new lodgings on the top…

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Cities-spaces-places

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“Science doesn't reduce things, or explain mysteries away; it just discovers stranger and stranger things.”

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Science

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“I didn't like crab. Not at all. My stepmother had tricked my into eating a crab sandwich once in a cafe in…

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“The great skill in lying is not lying, you'd say. Just leaving things out. Keeping everything as close to the actual truth…

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Lying

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