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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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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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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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All Effort Left Nothing Went
However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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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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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Always Intelligent People Socialist
What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Book Device Ignite Imagination
Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Always Assume Children Come Conception Grind Live Parent Sexual

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