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

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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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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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Mind Out Play Resolve Root Thing Write
The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Above Concern Pith Primarily Reality Substance
The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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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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Chip Fetch Fish Market Place Settle Shop
The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Day Enough Long Raed Want
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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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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Above Humanity Literature might One Queen Said Well
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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Education Long Pay Polly Right Sex Socialist

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