Anne Fine - Life

Life

Fine was born in Leicester, Leicestershire, and educated in neighboring counties of central England. She graduated from Northampton High School and earned a degree in politics from University of Warwick. She was married to the philosopher Kit Fine and is married to Dick Warren (as of September 2010). She currently lives in Barnard Castle, County Durham, England.

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    I have no scheme about it,—no designs on men at all; and, if I had, my mode would be to tempt them with the fruit, and not with the manure. To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives?—and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared, to live more worthily and profitably?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.
    George Orwell (1903–1950)

    My life I never held but as a pawn
    To wage against thine enemies’ nor fear to lose it,
    Thy safety being motive.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)