Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
ALAN BENNETTAnd if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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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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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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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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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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