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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.

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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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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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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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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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