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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.

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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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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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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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