- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Funny Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky enough to spend some of my school days in Barbados, where my father was working, and this gave me a taste for hot weather.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to other days, with fewer phone calls, no postman, no delivery men and no one banging on the door.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very nice to meet the people who read my books.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the south of France the phones cut in and out, the electricity isn't particularly reliable. I think many people would get very irritated with that life.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.
- Dearly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would dearly love to resist the temptation, if you can call it that, to worry. It's boring, it's anti-social, it's unproductive and it's depressing.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
One must never forget that life is unfair. But sometimes, with a bit of luck, this works in your favour.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was very young in London, I had a bank account, which didn't have a great deal in it. I should think at least every three months the bank manager would call me up and threaten to strangle me because I had no money, and I was writing checks.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020