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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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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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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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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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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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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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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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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