We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
ALAN BENNETTIt was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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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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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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