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Louis de Bernieres [1954-0] British

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Novelist

Louis de Bernières is a British novelist most famous for his fourth novel, Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine.

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In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.		101
What keeps me going is my children.		102
When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.		103
The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.		104
Family law is institutionally anti-male. I've been lobbying MPs, and I'm not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.	Equality	105
People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.		106
Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy.		107
So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.	Legal	108
An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.		109
Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.		110
The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.		111

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