Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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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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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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