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If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.
I got the idea of Loving from a manservant in the Fire Service during the war. He was serving with me in the ranks, and he told me he had once asked the elderly butler who was over him what the old boy most liked in the world. The reply was: 'Lying in bed on a summer morning, with the window open, listening to the church bells, eating buttered toast with cunty fingers.' I saw the book in a flash.
I can't understand why people can't go on just being ordinary to each other even if they are in love.
. . . it was these desperate inexperienced bitches, he thought, who never banded together but fought everyone and themselves and were like camels, they could go on for days without one sup of encouragement. Under their humps they had tanks of self-confidence so that they could cross any desert area of arid prickly pear without one compliment, or dewdrop as they called it in his family, to uphold them.
To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive ... but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.
At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.
After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."
The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.
I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow.
The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.
