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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.

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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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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’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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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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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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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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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[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 liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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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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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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