One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
ALAN BENNETTAt the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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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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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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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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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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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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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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