To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
ALAN BENNETTCloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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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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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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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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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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