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• But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me…
• I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that…
• Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into…
• Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's…
• I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want…
• It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.
• But there are some wounds that can never be healed.
• Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how…
• I like poking my nose into other people's lives.
• But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and…
• At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.
• I think writers are very anxious.

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