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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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The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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Victoria Glendinning
Born:
April 23, 1937
(age 88)
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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