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The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.

Victoria Glendinning

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Victoria Glendinning
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 23
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Sheffield
England
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There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.
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Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them.
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