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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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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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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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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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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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