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" Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore. "
Illness
Cancer
Bore
" Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception. "
Assume
Always
Parents
" Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development. "
Development
Library
Closing
" Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. "
Everyone
Book
Thinks
" Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about. "
About
Write
Romantic
" I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated. "
Feel
Always
Underestimated
" I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up. "
Find
Doing
History
" I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People don't read you too closely. Perhaps, after I've died, they'll look at my stuff, and read it through, and find there's more in it. That may be wrong, but that's what I comfort myself with. "
Writing
Know
Life
" I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university. "
Achievement
Love
Why
" 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. "
World
Long
Childhood
" I don't believe in private education. "
Believe
Education
Private
" If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging. "
Competitive
You
Try
" I have no nickname, as there has never been any need for one. "
Been
Any
Nickname
" I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control. "
Control
Expression
Kept
" I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really. "
Old
New
Labour
" I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none. "
Never
Seen
Shore
" I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. "
Resolve
Out
Mind
" Life is generally something that happens elsewhere. "
Something
Life
Happens
" Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key. "
Life
Box
Key
" My films are about embarrassment. "
About
Films
Embarrassment
" The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on countless theatre visits and trips to places of interest. "
Theatre
Remember
School
" Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else. "
Famous
Knowing
Memories
" Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now? "
Ground
Closer
Children
" We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules. "
Rules
Small
Community
" We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off. "
Humanity
Soon
Off
" Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching. "
Nobody
Side
Watching
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