The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
ALAN BENNETTWe still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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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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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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