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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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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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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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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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