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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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Above Humanity Literature might One Queen Said Well
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Always Assume Children Come Conception Grind Live Parent Sexual
Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Done Go Next Once Start Think
Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Come Hard Left List Probably Right Soft Under
The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Clitch Fun Got Quite
At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Eighty Occur Recur Thing
Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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Book Commonwealth Equal Herself Literature Read Reader Republic
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Hardest Human One Learn Teacher Thing
My experience came before most of you were born.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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