We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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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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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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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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