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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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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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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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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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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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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Day Enough Long Raed Want
Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Bet Depute Doubt Stoppard Underling
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Been Cambridge Grail Holy never Sense
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Book Device Ignite Imagination
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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