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Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Beings Dickens Human Human Beings Lover

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I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Book Child Despised English Friends Medieval Saved Up Very Which

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I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Books My Own Own Start Until Writing

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If I'm in a state about a book, I'll get up at 6 A.M. and write before breakfast, but usually I'll start afterwards and then work a full day with a break for lunch.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: About Afterwards Before Book Break Breakfast Day Full Get Lunch Start State Then Up Work Write

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When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Common Depression Diary Kept Quite Realised Think I Think

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Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Achieved Around Been Childhood Children Country Essentially Garden Had House How Men Might Most Mother Myself Never Older Older Sister Rather Regret Romantic Saw Sister Six Spent Still Suppose Things Vision Were

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It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Child Difficult Difficult Thing Grown-Up Lose Thing

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You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Become Interested Knuckle More Not Interested Older Over People Rapping Them Tolerant Understanding You

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I belong to the Richmond Concert Society, who put on very good concerts.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Belong Concert Concerts Good Put Society Very Who

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Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Actor Russell Shakespeare Simon Speaker Superb

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: June 20th, 1933

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