Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
ALAN BENNETTBut then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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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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