Claire Tomalin quotes
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“I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden until the past few years.”
-- Claire TomalinSource : "'It's about death as much as it is about life'". Interview with Dominic Murphy, Martyn Cox, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.
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“All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.”
-- Claire TomalinSource : "Claire Tomalin: 'Writing induces melancholy. You're alone, a hermit'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2011.
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“I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.”
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“As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.”
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“Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians.”
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“All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.”
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“The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.”
-- Claire TomalinSource : "Claire Tomalin: 'Writing induces melancholy. You're alone, a hermit'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2011.
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“By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.”
-- Claire TomalinSource : "Under their skins". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.
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“Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.”
-- Claire Tomalin
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Source : "Sh'ma, Volume 34, Issue 607 - Volume 36, Issue 626". Book edited by J. Jakobovits, 2004.
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“A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.”
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“It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
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