Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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