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1 " I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. "
2 " Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice. "
