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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 sh...more

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I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality ...more

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And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

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Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I'm sure you're now aware. Any long-term relationship is - and one does have to see it in the long te...more