It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
ALAN BENNETTPhilip 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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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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 dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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