Forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me.
("The Collector")
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The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.
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Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed.
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I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria.
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Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile that what might not be, is.
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I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.
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