Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure, short of total abstention. - Penelope Fitzgerald

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Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure, short of total abstention.

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About Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Mary Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was a Booker Prize-winning English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. Fitzgerald was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1978, for her novel The Bookshop; and won the Booker prize in 1979 for her work, Offshore.

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Birth Name: Penelope Mary Knox
Alternative Names: Penelope Mary Fitzgerald Penelope Knox

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