I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
ALAN BENNETTI suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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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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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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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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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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