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"When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green."
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"She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on."
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"Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end."
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"I keep fit by running after my three boys all day."
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"The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same."
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"My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them."
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"Meccano gives boys the secrets of the world's wonderful engineering structures."
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"When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them."
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"The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment."
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"I can't take any more white boys noodling around on their guitars."
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"Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years."
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"Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us."
Education
"I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do."
Life
"Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset."
Heart
"Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?"
Man
"Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home."
Home
"My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it."
Family
"I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself."
Memory
"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."
Nothing
"The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it."
Needs
"The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him."
Work
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