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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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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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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 masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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