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

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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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.

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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Alter Back Front Immediately One
It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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One See
Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.

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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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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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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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Anticipate Historian Holocaust Period Remote
I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.

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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Eighty Recur Thing
There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.

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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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Adjustment Made Some Substance Through Van
It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.

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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Been Easie Much Something Successful
If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.

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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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Assure Broadway Exactly Instance Made
Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Make Out
I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Out Resolve Root Thing Write
Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Conception Grind Parent Sexual
Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.

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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Other Pass
[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.

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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Go Next Once Think
Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.

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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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