- Nov 07, 2020
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- Embarrassment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
- Mistress
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.
- Destroy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.
- Grief
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.
- Nov 07, 2020
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.
- Nothing
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