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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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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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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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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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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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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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