Ian Laird
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Owen Marshall
“I felt I lived my life on the bottom of one of those great, sea aquariums with species foreign to me passing as dim shapes soundlessly, and with their own fixed purpose, overhead.”
Owen Marshall, Owen Marshall: Selected Stories

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

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

Nevil Shute
“She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done."
"That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.”
Nevil Shute, A Town Like Alice

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

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