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Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.
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All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.
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A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.
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I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.
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The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
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Nina Bawden
Born:
January 19, 1925
Died:
August 22, 2012
(aged 87)
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Nina Bawden JP was an English novelist and children's writer. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987 and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010.
Known for:
Carrie's War (1973)
The peppermint pig (1975)
Circles of Deceit (1987)
The Witch's Daughter (1966)
The Birds on the Trees (1970)
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