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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.

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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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