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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly a curtain has never fallen too soon for me. Every play is too long, even the short ones. Every concert, every film, every television programme the same.
- Concur
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's be honest with one another: almost everything is too long except life, and I know people who wouldn't even concur with that exception.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a law of our natures, especially when the political fit is on us, to applaud where we already approve, and deride where we don't.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not only teenagers who think they look good in pre-holed jeans, and I doubt it's only the superannuated who are amused by Ant and Dec.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let discernment in matters of fashion and entertainment determine who should get the vote, and half the country would be disenfranchised.
- Harm
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not every anti-Semite is Joseph Goebbels. You can not like Jews much and be no great harm to them.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alone of prejudices, anti-Zionism is sacrosanct. How very dare we distinguish the motivation of one sort from another? Or question, in any instance, an anti-Zionist's good faith? In fact, what determines whether anti-Zionism is anti-Semitic is the nature of it.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Stop The War Coalition is a sort of home to Jew-haters because its hate music about Israel is so catchy.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
The environment in which I studied was so safe, I thought I would die from the boredom of it.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had worked on the markets with my father before going to university, so I possessed an apparent street-smartness, had access to a colourful costermonger vocabulary, and tried passing myself off as a bit of spiv. But my contemporaries saw through me. At heart, they knew I was as bookish and oversensitive as they were.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sensitivity doesn't necessarily make you easy to get on with.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many a woman has suffered at the hands of a Paul Morel. There's more than one way of being brutal.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of my old tendency to overdo the dedication and deface the title page with florid compliments and obscure quotes which the recipient cannot read, I will say only that I learnt my lesson when I had to shell out with my own money for a hardback I'd vandalised and now limit myself to 'Good wishes.'
- Keep Smiling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine the anticlimax of opening a novel you'd just got Dostoyevsky to sign and finding 'Keep smiling - Fyodor.'
- Not Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a weakness of mine to forget what it is I've just been talking about so that when people make witty allusions to it, I stare at them open-mouthed, not knowing what they're talking about.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020