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Glitches

John Gregory Dunne

‘I prefer not to speculate about what might have happened if I had not taken the ECG.’

Editing Vidia

Diana Athill

‘I thought so highly of Vidia’s writing and felt his presence on our list to be so important that I simply could not allow myself not to like him.’

A Coup

Bruce Chatwin

‘You do not understand. In this country one understands nothing.’

The Zoo in Basel

John Berger

‘To create is to let take over something which did not exist before and is therefore new.’