We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.

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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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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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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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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.

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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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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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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”

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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.

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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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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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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,

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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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