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'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'

'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'

Born in Leicester, Leicestershire
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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. - Thomas Hardy
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