“You must master the vices. You know that if a thing is worth doing it's worth doing well. If, however, a thing is not worth doing then it's worth doing fabulously, amazingly, with grace, style and panache.”

— Isla Dewar

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Scottish novelist who died in 2021 1946–2021

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