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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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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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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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