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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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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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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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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