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"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."

"I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved."

"We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now."

"Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations."
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"I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating."

"Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing."

"The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers."

"When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so."

"Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us."

"Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls."

"I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way."

"Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember."
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