If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
ALAN BENNETTHere 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 started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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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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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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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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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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