"One of the rather unedifying truths about grief is it does block out more or less everything. It has a solipsistic quality to it."

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Source : "Decca Aitkenhead on Empathy and Memory". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016.

Decca Aitkenhead

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“For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I'm really happy when I'm waiting for a plane and the message comes that it's three hours late. Great, I'll get to write!”
“I play into the perception of me, but it's not really me.”
“In England we are sort of very awkward.”
“Inspiration is everywhere - film, television, newspapers, novels, overheard conversations, whatever you can tap into. It's out there, and I've been at this long enough to know that it won't always just come to me; sometimes I have to go get it.”
“Jimmy used to drink liquor. Now he's running for president and he drinks Scotch, and I've never trusted a Scotch-drinker.”
“Last week a former Royal Marine who is the boyfriend of the model Kelly Brooks crashed into a bus stop while driving a van carrying a load of dead badgers. I mention this solely to remind you that linguists are not kidding when they say â€¦ that your command of English enables you to understand sentences that have never occurred before in the entire history of the human species.”
“Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars”
“In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.”

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