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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.

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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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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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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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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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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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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