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 BENNETTI 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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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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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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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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