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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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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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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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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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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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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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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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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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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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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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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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