It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
ALAN BENNETT
Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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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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