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Hermione Lee Quotes

born 1948 England

Dame Hermione Lee (born 29 February 1948) is an English biographer, literary critic, journalist, editor, television presenter, and academic. She was elected in 1992 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2001 a Fellow of the British Academy.

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Emotions about our lost houses and gardens have to do with growing old and acquiring guilt: we are always leaving our first home and lamentingly looking back to it. The whole point of the Garden of Eden is that we are going to leave it, and then spend the rest of our time wishing we could return to it.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hermione Lee (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.