Author: Miranda Seymour

Quotes

I was brought up by my father to think that the best thing in life was to be charming, to have a nice smile, always to be liked.

I was brought up by my father to think that the best thing in life was to be charming, to have a nice smile, always to be liked.

- Miranda Seymour

My brother and I shared an isolated area at the top of the house; we would clamber over the roof and gables and grow our imaginations. But it didn't feel ideal at the time.

My brother and I shared an isolated area at the top of the house; we would clamber over the roof and gables and grow our imaginations. But it didn't feel ideal at the time.

- Miranda Seymour

I've always been of the party that rubbished the idea of a definitive account of somebody's life.

I've always been of the party that rubbished the idea of a definitive account of somebody's life.

- Miranda Seymour

In 20th-century poetry, Robert Graves is to love what Philip Larkin is to mortality.

In 20th-century poetry, Robert Graves is to love what Philip Larkin is to mortality.

- Miranda Seymour

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