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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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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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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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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 have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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