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The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.

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Joanna Trollope
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 9
Novelist
Writer
Minchinhampton
Gloucestershire
Caroline Harvey
Hamsters
Tragedy
Women
Children
Men
Love
World

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My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.
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Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.
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I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.
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Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.
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You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.
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You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.
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You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.
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