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We were perfectly decorous together. It took the will of both of us. I trusted him with me, and myself with him.Ronald Frame
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That’s what friends are for, ” ShebaRonald Frame
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Some things belong to the past.Ronald Frame
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Experience can never be undone, or knowledge unlearned.Ronald Frame
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I’m not just a face, or a body. I’m a Havisham.Ronald Frame
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Don’t we have to live a little first? And read later?Ronald Frame
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Why d’you think she did it?” I told him I had no idea. He seemed disappointed that I shouldn’t know.“ A broken heart, ” I suggested.“ Do people suffer so much?”“ For love? Oh, I imagine so.”“ To drown herself?”“ Why does that astonish you? Dido threw herself on the flames.”“ In legend.”“ And real life’s different?” I asked.Ronald Frame
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Let's say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that's simpler and more direct. The story is what matters to me. I hope to make it seem real to readers, as if it happened just like this - so I don't want fancy descriptions getting in the way.Ronald Frame
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At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and compulsory cap and - if I'd done well enough to earn the honour in last week's test - with a First World War medal on a striped ribbon pinned to my brown blazer. I must have looked like a chocolate soldier.Ronald Frame