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

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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 best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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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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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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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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