“ One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. ”
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“ If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart. ”
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“ My voice has been blamed on Guinness and on Gauloises and all sorts of things like that but I'm here to tell you that it's a family voice entirely. My voice is the same timbre as my brothers, except of course that he's more Cambridge, and my father had exactly the same voice only he, of course, was a bit more North country… ”
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“ The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has. ”
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