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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 conspiracy.
- One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.
- What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive…
- For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should have that effect…
- when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions…
- They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they…
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