Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
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Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
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The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
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I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
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