The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.
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Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envy at other’s good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up.
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Glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid…an old sheet of glass will not only take on a royal and purplish tinge but will reveal its true liquid nature by having grown fatter at the bottom and thinner at the top, and… It is invisible, solid, in short a joyous and paradoxical thing, as good a material as any to build a life from.
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Birth: | 7th May, 1943 |
Nationality: | Australian |
Profession: | Author, Novelist, Teacher, Writer |
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