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

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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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