Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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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 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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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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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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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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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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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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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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