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There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.

~James Herriot

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For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

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I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

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I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

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I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.

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They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: October 3rd, 1916

Died: February 23rd, 1995

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