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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Chance never Next Now Out Sometimes Time
Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Do Leisure Mean Nothing Purpose Some
The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Glass Life Nobody Other Side Watch Whole

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