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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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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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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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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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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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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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