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On The Whole, Dialogue Is The Most Difficult Thing, Without Any Doubt. It's Very Difficult, Unfortunately. You Have To Detach Yourself From The Notion Of A Lifelike Quality. You See, Actually Lifelike, Tape-recorded Dialogue Like This Has Very Little To Do With Good Novel Dialogue. It's A Matter Of Getting That Awful Tyranny Of Mimesis Out Of Your Mind, Which Is Difficult.

Forgetting’s Not Something You Do, It Happens To You. Only It Didn’t Happen To Me.

In Essence The Renaissance Was Simply The Green End Of One Of Civilization's Hardest Winters.

Only Fools Think Our Attitude To Our Fellow Men Is A Thing Distinct From Our Attitude To 'lesser' Life On This Planet.

He Was One Of The Most Supremely Stupid Men I Have Ever Met. He Taught Me A Great Deal.