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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.

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Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

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If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

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It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.

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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

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Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

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Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice.

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When I wrote 'The Pregnant Widow' three or four years ago, I tried to reread my first novel, 'The Rachel Papers,' because their young heroes are the same age. I couldn't finish it. It seemed to me so technically slapdash and weak.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: August 25th, 1949

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