There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
ALAN BENNETTAnd now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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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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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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