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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’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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Bible Mean never Nor Prayer Rate Read Something
Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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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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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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