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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.

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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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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’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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