- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that virtue will be rewarded, when in fact it is mostly simply the fact of being the central character that ensures a favourable outcome. Fairy tales are not, on the whole, parables.
- Blitz
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- Nov 07, 2020
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a novelist tells you something she knows or thinks, and you believe her, that is not because either of you think she is God, but because she is doing her work - as a novelist.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.
- Nov 07, 2020
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020