I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
ALAN BENNETTWe have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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