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I get bored easily. I've been bored most of my life.

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In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.

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You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.

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I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.

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I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.

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People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.

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I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

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