Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
ALAN BENNETTAn article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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