But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
ALAN BENNETTGod doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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