Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
ALAN BENNETT
It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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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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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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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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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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