It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. It's something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!
There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.
I'm very claustrophobic.
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub.
I don't get claustrophobic.
Even though I went to Exeter and Yale, and I enjoyed all the trappings of those places, I think at the same time - and maybe it's because I'm an immigrant kid and not white - there was always this other consciousness; that is, I was conscious of everything that was going on.
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