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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.

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Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.

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I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

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