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“Let's be honest with one another: almost everything is too long except life, and I know people who wouldn't even concur with that exception.”

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Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability.

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There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the…

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The novel is a thing of irony and ambiguity. That's at the heart of 'J', a world that has stopped arguing with itself. We…

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I was a 'reverence for life' man - 'see life steadily and see it whole' - in my days as a lecturer in English…

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How Donald Trump has come so far with so few words - how he even managed to keep up conversationally with all those beauty…

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It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always been going…

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For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of…

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Even the wordiest of men know there's a time to button it.

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That a nation's statuary will reflect beliefs and attitudes that are no longer current or congenial hardly needs arguing. In most instances, it doesn't…

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“Was he a bad man or just a foolish one? He didn't feel bad to himself. As a husband he believed himself to be…

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The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home.

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To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it.

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If you think you're doing everything right, then you have a tendency to stand pat.

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Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.

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That's one of my idols, I really look up to Pacquiao. This guy is everything I would want to be.

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Everything I have experienced and learned in football led me towards one day becoming a coach.

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