To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
ALAN BENNETTYou always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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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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 books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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