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    Through him she met Alan Bennett, one of the most important friends in her life, who recalls her moving into the Randolph hotel for the duration of her finals. "Outside the novels of Nancy Mitford or Evelyn Waugh ... I had never come across anyone who behaved so confidently or in such a cosmopolitan fashion." The pair were even, as he puts it, “spuriously affiancéd” for the purpose of going to parties, and were invited to dinner at Downing Street by Harold Wilson. Full Article at Times Online
    Outside the novels of Nancy Mitford or Evelyn Waugh ... I had never come across anyone who behaved so confidently or in such a cosmopolitan fashion.
    Alan Bennett – Alan Bennett SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
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Mary-Kay Wilmers: Queen of Plots
  1. Most editors are interested in you short term, as a contributor
    – Hilary Mantel SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  2. Briefly, a few years ago. I had some interesting conversations.
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  3. He was a believer. Once you’re in the business of killing, you kill.
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  4. I don’t see why people make such a big deal out of f***ing
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  5. They all smoked in those days and were jammed behind desks with papers falling off them and incredibly intense.
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  6. Do you think all this would have been said about a male editor? There was a piece in The Independent that started, ‘How dare she do this?’ I mean, say that to William Randolph Hearst!
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  7. She can see very clearly what writers need.
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  8. Blair’s handling of the post-September 11 crisis was impeccable
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  9. Two males, Brighton, one reads, one writes, looking for rough trade
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago
  10. I just think we get worked up about the wrong things, and there is more wrong on one side. What Cherie Blair said about being a suicide bomber if she’d been brought up in Gaza, I can absolutely see that point.
    SOURCE: Times Online 1 month ago

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