Ian Laird
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Rudyard Kipling
“There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.”
Rudyard Kipling, Kim

R.K. Narayan
“You become [a] writer by writing. It is a yoga.”
R. K. Narayan

Penelope Fitzgerald
“She did not know that morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.”
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop

Olivia Manning
“Every marriage was imperfect and the destroying agents, the imperfections, were there, unseen, from the start.”
Olivia Manning, Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy

W.E. Johns
“The first man who puts a foot past that next rock will meet a small piece of nickel coated lead coming the other way. Got that?”
W.E. Johns, Biggles Hits the Trail

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