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David Roberts's avatar

"It has made me more insufferable, which is really just an Irish way of saying ‘confident." Classic Laura!

Enjoyed this interview very much.

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Eleanor Anstruther's avatar

I loved that!

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Emily Charlotte Powell's avatar

This made me smile - beautifully written blend of humour and seriousness. Thank you. "There are other kinds of value, but I can't eat any of those" - very true.

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Allie's avatar

So much to love here, not least the hilarious 'my vocabulary narrows significantly when I'm hungry' – O tempora, o mores! I wonder if Dickens ever curbed his vocab to shift more copies?

Here's to the certainty that living in doubt (while trying to sidestep apathy) is the privilege of thinking, even a little bit, about anything.

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