Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
ALAN BENNETTStandards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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