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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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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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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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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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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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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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