If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
ALAN BENNETTAnd now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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