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From: The Spectator
Date: 19971220
Author:Hillier, Bevis

THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF LITERARY QUOTATIONS edited by Peter Kemp OUP, 17.99, pp. 479

When you find that this book contains the words of Kelvin Mackenzie, formerly editor of the Sun, but nothing from Sir Compton Mackenzie, author of Sinister Street, you may wonder what the definition of `literary quotation' is. Also, Joan Collins is just as well represented as William Collins and Wilkie Collins - one utterance apiece. And Barbara Cartland is in ('I say a prayer and God gives me a plot immediately.').

In 1984 a small private publisher, the Blandford Press at Poole, Dorset, issued Neil ...

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