But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
ALAN BENNETTAn article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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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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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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