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• Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit…
• Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
• Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt…
• When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of…
• Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
• Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of…
• Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
• Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
• Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark - spattered wheels…
• One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.
• Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
• More will mean worse.

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