Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
ALAN BENNETTHis writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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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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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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