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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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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 thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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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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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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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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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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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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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