Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
ALAN BENNETTThe sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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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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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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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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