He was in the cockpit when the plane went down. We're very proud of him and all the folks who made sure our nation's Capitol was not a target. They did not take out a symbol of our democracy.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
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In 1964, submerged by the suburbs reaching farther into the country, we left Castle Hill, and moved into the centre of the city.
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Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.
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