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  • I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy interest in the living - don't you hate gossips, aren't they too awful? - but avid for any nuggets from the private lives of the dead because that is perfectly respectable, an altogether worthy and informative way of spending one's time.

    Hate   Reading   Avid  
    Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited
  • My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

    Change   Time   Children  
    Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited
  • It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race.

    Thinking   Race   Issues  
  • writing had to take the form of journalism. Not for me the Shangri-la of fiction. The rewards, if any, would have been too little and too late, the bailiffs were at the door. ... Two large bailiffs, they were, who visited frequently and smiled like grand pianos, the only really reliable men in my life. They told me what they were going to do and if they did it, woe was me.

    Writing   Men   Two  
  • I am still sure of absolute wrong but much less certain of absolute right.

    Evil   Certain   Stills  
  • Always suspect any job men willingly vacate for women.

    Jobs   Work   Men  
    Jill Tweedie (1980). “It's only me: pieces from a column”, Robson Books Limited
  • Children are a plant substitute and we haven't the wit to see it until too late

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