"... I liked teaching math best because I don’t have a natural way with figures and therefore had sympathy with the children who didn’t either. And I greatly respected the ones who did possess that aptitude. My skill in art and English made me impatient, and I found those subjects rather dreary to teach as a result. “Why are the art room walls covered with pictures of such ugly women?” a headmaster asked me once. “And why have some of them got those horrible cigarette butts hanging out of their nostrils?” I explained that I had asked the children to paint the ugliest woman they could think of. Unfortunately, almost all of them had looked no further than the headmaster’s wife. I like that devilish thing in children."
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William Trevor
(published as William Trevor; 24 May 1928 – 20 November 2016) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, playwright, and television dramatist. Although he remained an Irish citizen, he and his wife in 1952 moved to England, where their two sons were born and where he worked as a teacher, sculptor, and for an advertising agency. In 1964 he became a full time writer. In 1976 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). He was appointed in 1979 (CBE) and in 2002 (KBE). In 1994
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