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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Men Most Poem Regard Threaten Women
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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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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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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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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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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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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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