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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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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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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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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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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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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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