It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
ALAN BENNETTTo begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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