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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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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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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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