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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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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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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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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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Hardest Learn Not One Teacher Tell Them Thing Try
I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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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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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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