Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
ALAN BENNETTTo begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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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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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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