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‘I’ve been trying to deal with the old subjective v objective chestnut since the age of 12 or 13’
‘Here comes the admission: as a teenager I did not like Brahms’ symphonies at all’
‘Seeing these clothes, I couldn’t help thinking about the women who had once worn them’
‘Weather in the UK has gone from being the safest of subjects to the most inflammatory’
‘Are people suffering from impostor syndrome merely pretending to be impostors?’
‘I don’t want anybody to go through what we went through,’ said one of the Basque refugees
‘Distracted pedestrians are a problem but distracted drivers are a more serious nuisance’
‘Shaken is a process that comes from outside; stirring starts within and moves outward’
‘Wilfred Owen delivered an almost mortal blow to the Roman poet Horace’s reputation’
‘What does heritage mean, exactly?’
‘The poet Patrick Shaw-Stewart worked so hard to win the scholarship that all his hair fell out’
‘I think he wanted to enjoy the time that was left, every minute of it, not talk about it’
‘With their latest discovery, “Fantasio”, I think Opera Rara have struck gold’
‘During journalism’s golden age, a reporter was urged to go out and have lunch more often’
‘The choice could be expressed as a question: is port a Portuguese or a British wine?’
‘And then there was the parrot. Haydn bought it in London and it lived with him for 19 years’
‘Gerald Durrell’s genius is in making creatures come alive, no less vivid than human characters’
‘I’m not sure how Tube passengers will respond to sentences such as ‘Truth is a pathless land’ ’
‘My radical suggestion is to replace Strauss and Mozart with Schoenberg, Berg and Webern’
‘Strangely, I dreaded the loss of the house from a very early age. I had nightmares about it’
‘I’ve got Finno-Ugric roots so I guess the Baltic world holds a certain familiar appeal’
‘Statistics reveal that half of children can’t tell the difference between a bee and a wasp’
Harry Eyres’s Horace is an appealing guide to life, ancient and modern. Sarah Bakewell reviews ‘Horace and Me’
When did it become acceptable to call out players’ names in order to put off the opponent?
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