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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Book Live Other Pass Time World
I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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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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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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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Control Expression Favor Free Kept Provide Rigid Under
Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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