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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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[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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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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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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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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Make Oneself Read Unavailable Withdraw
Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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