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.
ALAN BENNETT
My 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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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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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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The 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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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