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• All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion as total…
• Faith is the enemy of discovery.
• You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.
• Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater,…
• Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.
• Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was…
• Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.
• Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

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