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I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.

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Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?

Age, Feelings, Give, Giving, Nostalgia, Warm
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Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

Based, Character, Constricting, Known, People

Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

Fiction, Honest, Thinking, Truth, Writing

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.

Enough, Literature, Realize, Realizing, Things, Writing

Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?

Given, Grief, Mean, Names, Separate

And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly.

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