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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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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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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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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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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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