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Quite a strange man, thought James, watching him go – but what a relief to discover he still contained the capacity to be taken by surprise.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
That Thomas had worked for the Chronicle since 1976 was easily established, as was the fact that he’d published three brief novels since that date. Out of a sense of delicacy Carleton never mentioned that he owned all three of these, and found them elegant and elliptical, couched in prose that had the cadence of the King James Bible, and concerned
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‘He made every sentence electric’: Martin Amis remembered by Tina Brown, his old friend and devoted editor
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Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
He was the voice in England of this humane intoxication and expansion, this encouraging of anybody to be anything. His best books are a carnival of liberty,
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
possibly the most extreme example in modern fiction of how beautifully and lovingly someone can write 70,000 words of vicious nonsense.