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Sweet Tooth (2012)
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Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.
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What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?
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Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.
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How can one understand the inner life of a character, real or fictional, without knowing the state of her finances?
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And feeling clever, I've always thought, is just a sigh away from being cheerful.
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There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.
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I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favourite shoes.
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I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and accessible form.
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Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.
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Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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June 21, 1948
(age 76)
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