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There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.
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The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Walter Benjamin
Victoria Glendinning
Born:
April 23, 1937
(age 85)
Known for:
Raffles: And the Golden Opportunity (2012)
Leonard Woolf (2006)
Edith Sitwell a Unicorn Among Lions (1981)
Elizabeth Bowen (1977)
Rebecca West (1986)
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