That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
ALAN BENNETTPolly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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What 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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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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