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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Book Live Other Pass Time World
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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Already Book Confirm Decide Generally Just Perhaps Unwittingly
And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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Away Can Distance Explain History Yourself
I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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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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[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 majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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