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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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Blue Every Eye Know Length Look Loveliest Miner Seen Time Yet

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