Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
ALAN BENNETT
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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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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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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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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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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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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