A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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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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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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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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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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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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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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