Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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