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

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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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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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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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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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