That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
A. S. ByattWhat literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
A. S. ByattLouis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
A. S. Byattโฆwords have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anewโฆ.
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