Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
ALAN BENNETTThe longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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