I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
ALAN BENNETTBut 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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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 think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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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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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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