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