Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT
It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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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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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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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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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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