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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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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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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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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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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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