The basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story … - H. E. Bates

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I come from a broken home. My parents split up when I was nine. Everyone gave me a good wallop. But I come from a time when you just put up with that, you got on with things rather than sitting moaning about them.

H. E. Bates

The basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story can be anything the author decides it shall be;. . . In that infinite flexibility, indeed lies the reason why the short story has never been adequately defined.

Adequately, Infinite, Lying, Make, Reason Why, Stories

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Gardens. . . should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.

Curves, Garden, Girl, Girls, Unexpected

Climate helps to shape the character of peoples, certainly no people more than the English. The uncertainty of their climate has helped to make the English, a long-suffering, phlegmatic, patient people rather insensitive to surprise, stoical against storms,. slightly incredulous at every appearance of the sun, touched by the lyrical gratitude of someone who expects nothing and suddenly receives more than he dreamed.

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The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied.

Artist, Garden, Gardener, Like, Satisfied, True

A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.

Adventure, Change, Garden, State, Time

The garden that is finished is dead.

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