And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
ALAN BENNETTAn article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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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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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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