Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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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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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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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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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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