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“As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.”

Claire Tomalin

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“Poor Nelly, she was not to know that fashions in sin change as much as other fashions.”

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I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.

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I would like to have a more social life than I have.

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I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published.

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I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not…

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Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

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I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real…

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Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all…

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Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.

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You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.

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Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.

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