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Michael Frayn é um repórter, colunista, romancista, dramaturgo e guionista inglês.

Começou a sua carreira como jornalista nos jornais Guardian e Observer. Autor de nove romances e de várias peças de teatro, é também um conceituado tradutor nomeadamente da língua russa.

O seu romance Golpe de Mestre foi finalista do Booker Prize, em 1999, do Whitbread Novel Prize e do James Tait Black Memorial Prize de Ficção. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. Setembro 1933
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Michael Frayn: Frases em inglês

“It's not the despair, Laura, I can stand the despair. It's the hope.”

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Clockwise (1986), cited from Malcolm Page File on Frayn (London: Methuen, 1994) p. 65.

“The more you try to describe a dream the further it eludes your grasp, retreating before the advance of the words, growing cooler and cooler and paler and paler, until, when you have recorded it all, there is nothing of what it was really like left in your memory.”

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Michael Frayn livro The Tin Men

The Tin Men (London: Collins, 1965) p. 59.

“If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.”

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James Fenton (ed.) The Original Michael Frayn (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1983) p. 67.

“One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog"…The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog."”

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James Fenton (ed.) The Original Michael Frayn (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1983) p. 67.

“To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.”

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The Observer, August 8, 1965.