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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.

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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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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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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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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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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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