So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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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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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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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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