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If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is…
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Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill…
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Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
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At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
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I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.
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I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed,…
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I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign…
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If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other…
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He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it…
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Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and…
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And then she frowned, and shook her head, then put her arms around him once more, pressing her face into his shoulder,…
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It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year…
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