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The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.

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When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

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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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