Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
ALAN BENNETTOne of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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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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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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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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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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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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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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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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