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[Margaret Thatcher] was alway...

[Margaret Thatcher] was always talking about what the prudent housewife should do and what the prudent housewife knew.

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I will get into trouble, I am...

I will get into trouble, I am sure, because since my Kate Middleton speech and before, certain papers were after me. I am not saying, however, that it would have been moral or right to assassinate Mrs. [Margaret] Thatcher, but I know it will be read that way. I know it will cause a problem.

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I think if the monarchy were ...

I think if the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set.

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You think you're writing one ...

You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.

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As Danton sees it, the most b...

As Danton sees it, the most bizarre aspect of Camille's character is his desire to scribble over every blank surface; he sees a guileless piece of paper, virgin and harmless, and persecutes it till it is black with words, and then besmirches its sister, and so on, through the quire.

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To me, Hillary [Clinton] look...

To me, Hillary [Clinton] looks alright. She looks like the kind of woman I admire. She doesn't seem to have distorted her essential nature.

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Suppose within each book ther...

Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space on the desk. Suppose knowledge could be reduced to a quintessence, held within a picture, a sign, held within a place which is no place. Suppose the human skull were to become capacious, spaces opening inside it, humming chambers like beehives.

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When I began to read as an ad...

When I began to read as an adult, I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then I started getting more up to date. When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.

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Back in my 20s, when I wrote ...

Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots.'' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things.

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Fortitude. ... It means fixit...

Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.

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If I am feeling broken, I can...

If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of [Ivy Compton-Burnett] books and the next morning I can write again. It puts my mechanism back.

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You mustn't stand about. Come...

You mustn't stand about. Come home with me to dinner.’ ‘No.’ More shakes his head. ‘I would rather be blown around on the river and go home hungry. If I could trust you only to put food in my mouth – but you will put words into it.

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He thinks, I remembered you, ...

He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.

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[Margaret Thatcher] assumed s...

[Margaret Thatcher] assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household with a woman who knew what she should be doing.

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[Margaret Thatcher] scorned a...

[Margaret Thatcher] scorned and despised other women, and predicated her values entirely on the values of her father, a small town shopkeeper.

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Florence and Milan had given ...

Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.

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You learn nothing about men b...

You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

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This was an idea peculiar to ...

This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.

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I think the monarchy today is...

I think the monarchy today is.?.?. mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go.

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[H]ope takes you by the throa...

[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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