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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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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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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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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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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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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