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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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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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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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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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