I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
ALAN BENNETTThe appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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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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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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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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