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

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" 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. "

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" I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really. "

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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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" Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore. "

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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. "

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

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" I don't believe in private education. "