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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.

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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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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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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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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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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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