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.
ALAN BENNETTBut most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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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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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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