Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
ALAN BENNETT
Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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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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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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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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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 bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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