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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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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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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