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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.

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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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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Detach Have Him never Nice Put Villa Word Write
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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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Do God Him Keep Long Mention No Sleeve Vicar
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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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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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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Make Oneself Read Unavailable Withdraw
A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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