It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
ALAN BENNETTMy school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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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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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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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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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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