Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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 of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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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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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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