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Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

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It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist's studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.

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As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.

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In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

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Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

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Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

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Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

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The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

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I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.

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I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: January 19th, 1946

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