Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
ALAN BENNETTNature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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