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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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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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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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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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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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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