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Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.

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Ruth Rendell

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My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move – he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling – was terrible.

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The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.

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May 27, 2024

The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.

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May 27, 2024

My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move – he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling – was terrible.

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