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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

- Alan Bennett
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I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that world. I do not want to be the person I am now in that world then. None of the forms nostalgia can take fits. I found childhood boring. I was glad it was over.

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.

Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

I'd somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed.

I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.