It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.
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Nationality: Australian Type: Novelist Born: November 7, 1942 |
“A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.”
“It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.”