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• You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute…
• A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living…
• But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?
• The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved.
• Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in…
• Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how…
• Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time;…
• Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
• The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
• It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved…
• We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are…
• Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment,…

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