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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.

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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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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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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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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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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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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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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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