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

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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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