The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
ALAN BENNETTWhat she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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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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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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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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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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