“Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.”
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My father was in the First World War.
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so, ' reducing it to a simple formula.
All my friends' mothers were appalling women.