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My experience came before most of you were born.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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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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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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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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