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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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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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