"If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared."

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Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.

— Augustine Birrell