Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
ALAN BENNETTCloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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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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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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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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