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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.

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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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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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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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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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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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