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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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 tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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