- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
- Buy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is difficult to remember just how formal middle-class life was in the 1930's and '40s. I wore a suit and tie at home from the age of 18. One dressed for breakfast. One lived in a very formal way, and emotions were not paraded. And my childhood was not unusual.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the carpet is a personal defilement. There are others, and I think I am one of them, who are entirely indifferent to where they live.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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- Nov 07, 2020