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" I enjoy moving. I like to be in a new place. Settling down doesn't appeal to me much. I like the whole business of it. And I love the first night in the new place. "
Ruth Rendell
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" Violence is very much with us, and we like to see it. I doubt if you can change that, and I'm not sure you should want to. I have occasionally been very upset by something I was writing, but it's quite rare: I keep my writing very separate from my life. "
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" What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar. "
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" How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? "
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" I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like. "
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" I'm not much of a shoe person, but I love a pair by Bruno Magli that I've had for 10 years. "
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" I can't sum up my books. They're all rather complicated. Sometimes I think they're too complicated. But that's the way I am. When I start to write a book, my head gets full of all kinds of detail. "
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" People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul. "
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" I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at. "
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" Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves. "
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" I'm a very bad Christian, but I am a Christian. I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point. And socialist, well yes, of course, it's not a fashionable word, but I am very much of the Left. "
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