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Essays & Memoir|
An Education
Lynn Barber
‘The whole meeting seemed completely unreal but then everything at that time seemed unreal, so I said ‘Yes, by all means make the film,’ and went back to the hospital and forgot about her.’
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The Smoking Diaries
Simon Gray
‘The inside of my head feels soft and thoughtless, with a muzzy ache going round its rim.’
Fiction|
Five Cats and Three Women
J. Robert Lennon
‘While he didn't mind (not much anyway) being responsible for the death of one cat, his cat, he did not feel good shouldering the death of four cats.’
Fiction|
Termite’s Birthday, 1959
Jayne Anne Phillips
‘It's like by the time he was born there was too much to know.’
Fiction|
The Tutor
Nell Freudenberger
‘He hated the idea of learning words from a list; it was like taking vitamin supplements in place of eating.’
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An Education
Lynn Barber
‘Alan was adept at not answering questions, but actually he rarely needed to, because I never asked them.’
Fiction|No Issue
Essays & Memoir|
Passover in Baghdad
Tim Judah
‘Today it is hard to imagine that so many Jews once lived here.’