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"Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation."
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"The legacy we leave behind should be better than the legacy we inherited."

"To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain!"

"Great deeds begin in the mind, extraordinary deeds begin in the heart, and remarkable deeds begin in the soul."

"A son is an unfulfilled man's last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams."

"Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them."

"Ideas taken and planted into the grave do not germinate."

"If you do not work hard, nothing works."
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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."

"I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from."

"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."

"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."

"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."

"It's ridiculous " a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it's a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid."

"When you're depressed you retreat and you go into a smaller world. This is why Brighton worked well for the story, because it's a smaller world than London."

"If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people's thinking."

"This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press."
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