To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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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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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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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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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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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 tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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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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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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