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I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.

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Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

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If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

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England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place. . . an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

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And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

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Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first.

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These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, as if without a tag they wouldn’t be human.

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