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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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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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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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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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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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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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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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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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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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