The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
ALAN BENNETT
At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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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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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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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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