But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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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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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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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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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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And 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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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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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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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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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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