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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.

Alan Bennett

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Across Best Come Feel Look Moment Raed Something Special Particular Thought
Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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Bookshelf Library Particular People Perform Stamp
Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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Blue Eye Live Perhaps Remind Think
They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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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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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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