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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.

Alan Bennett

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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