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• The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's…
• I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at…
• What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.
• Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.
• I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the end of…
• Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.
• We may not be the creme de la creme, but we are the creme de la scum.
• The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to…

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