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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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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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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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