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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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