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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,

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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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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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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.
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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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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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