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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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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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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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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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