Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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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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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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Here 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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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