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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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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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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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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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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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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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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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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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[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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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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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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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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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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