It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
ALAN BENNETTOne 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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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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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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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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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