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A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

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Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything.

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That killed head straining through the windscreen
with its frill of bubbles in the eye-sockets
is not trying to tell you something—
it is telling you something.

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If the garden of Eden really exists it does so moment by moment, fragmented and tough, cropping up like a fan of buddleia high up in the gutter of a deserted warehouse, or in a heap of frozen cabbages becoming luminous in the reflected light of roadside snow.

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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. This, as the sages of many lands have taught us, is a golden rule in individual and group, as well as international, relations.
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Helen Dunmore

Helen Dunmore
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Born: December 12, 1952
Died: June 5, 2017 (aged 64)
Bio: Helen Dunmore was a British poet, novelist and children's writer. Educated at the University of York, she now lives in Bristol. Dunmore is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Known for:
  1. The Siege (2001)
  2. A Spell of Winter (1995)
  3. The Lie (2014)
  4. The Betrayal (2010)

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