One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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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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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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