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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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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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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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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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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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