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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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Make Oneself Read Unavailable Withdraw
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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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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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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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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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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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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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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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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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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