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

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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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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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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Call Course Date Out Standard
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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Being Born Find Go People Rose Sight Virginia Way Wool Yourself
Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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House Live never Write
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Chance never Next Now Out Sometimes Time
A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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