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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.
- Conferred
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- Nov 07, 2020
His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All cities are impressive in their way, because they represent the aspiration of men to lead a common life; those people who wish to live agreeable lives, and in constant intercourse with one another, will build a city as beautiful as Paris.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two types of people, you see. One type keep their heads straight, and look around as they walk. The others look up - at the tops of houses, at the eaves and the lintels and the roofs, which can tell you when they were built - and I've always done that.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed people in my fiction, and why I try to earn as much money as I can. It's a defense. I don't enjoy it or do anything with it.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020