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I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

by Miranda Hart

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"Miranda is a Tolstoyan thinker! There’s that same ethos of acceptance, nonresistance, and (literally) doglike in-the-moment trust that Tolstoy espouses in his two major novels." — Dec 22, 2025 08:59AM

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“The writer who thinks that his work is marvellous is heading for trouble.”
― Roald Dahl, The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar and Six More

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“I was told, 'You'll have to be twice as good as the men to be thought of as even only half as good.'
I said, 'well luckily, that's not difficult.”
― Karren Brady

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― Bridget Phillipson

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“While thrillers may not be Literature with a capital L, it is possible to write what I can best describe as 'thrillers designed to be read as literature'.”
― Ian Fleming

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