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My mother has an absolute passion for sour fruit and can strip a gooseberry bush quicker than a priest can strip a choirboy.
Moab is My Washpot (1997)
Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
Moab is My Washpot (1997)
It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then like most clichés, that cliché is untrue.
Moab is My Washpot (1997)
I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday . . . mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me.
Moab is My Washpot (1997)
My vocal cords are made of tweed. I give off an air of Oxford donnishness and old BBC wirelesses.
Moab is My Washpot (1997)
It is, I know, for I have experienced it perhaps twice in my life, an awful privilege to be too much loved and perhaps the kindest thing I ever did in my life was never to let Matthew know to what degree he had destroyed my peace and my happiness.
Moab is My Washpot (1997)
My first words, as I was being born... I looked up at my mother and said, "that's the last time I'm coming out one of those."
Moab is My Washpot (1997)