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When I was about 9, my ancient half-sister got engaged. The man of her choice was an English doctor. Romance was floating in the air like moondust.

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I devised a stunt for getting myself sent back home. My idea was that I should all of a sudden develop an attack of acute appendicitis.

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When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

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The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

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Throughout my young days at school and just afterwards a number of things happened to me that I have never forgotten.

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I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

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Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.

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A Liquorice Bootlace is not round. It's like a flat tape about half an inch wide. You buy it rolled up in a coil.

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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.

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Great excitement is probably the only thing that really interests a 6-year-old boy.

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Everyone has some sort of a boat in Norway. NObody sits around in front of the hotel. Nor does anyone sit on the beach.

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A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

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In 1920, with no penicillin or other magical antibiotic cures, pneumonia in particular was a very dangerous illness indeed.

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I began to realise that the large chocolate companies actually did possess inventing rooms, and they took their inventing very seriously.

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Cadbury's were using some of the greatest chocolate-bar experts in the world to test out their new inventions. We knew every chocolate bar in existence.

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The summer holidays! The magic words! The mere mention of them used to send shivers of joy rippling over my skin.

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A tuck-box is a small pinewood trunk which is very strongly made, and no boy has ever gone as a boarder to an English Prep School without one.

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There is nothing wrong with a few quick sharp tickles on the rump. They probably do a naughty boy a lot of good.

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All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

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I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

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