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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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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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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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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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