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Penelope Fitzgerald - The Bookshop (1978)

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Surely you have to succeed, if you give everything you have.'
'I don't see why. Everyone has to give everything they have eventually. They have to die. Dying can't be called a success.


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A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

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The frame of mind, however, is everything. Given that, one can have a very satisfactory party all by oneself.

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Born: December 17, 1916
Died: April 28, 2000 (aged 83)
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