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“Hot crumpets with butter and jam - what could be more ambrosial?”
“Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.)”
“A warm sunny evening, the plash and gurgle of the waves in the rock pools, the rush of the cold gin. I thought for the first time of my novel, abandoned, all these years, and I came up, unprompted,...”
“Those of us who have the luck to enjoy good health forget about this vast parallel universe of the unwell-their daily miseries, their banal ordeals. Only when you cross that frontier into the world...”
“It was pleasant - and the sense of otherness was nice, that there were two people involved in this process, that we were each giving something to the other.”
