Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
ALAN BENNETTWe still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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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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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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