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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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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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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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