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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…
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Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.
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Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt…
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When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of…
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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
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Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of…
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Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.
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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
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Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark - spattered wheels…
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One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.
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Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
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More will mean worse.
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In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens…
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I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by…
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Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
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French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood.…
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His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people - his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The…
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