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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.

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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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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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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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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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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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