Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
ALAN BENNETTI wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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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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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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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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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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