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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.

Alan Bennett

Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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Education Long Pay Polly Right Sex Socialist
Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Call Course Date Out Standard
I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Could Decide Idea Meet Notion Really Think
Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Al Box Life Look Sadness Sky
Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Always Date Makem Standard Standard
Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Congo Country Credit Derive Hull Larkin Live More People
If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Pity Reality Really Sum Suppose Talk Work
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Bookshelf Library Particular People Perform Stamp
It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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Certain Civilize Education Grant Privilege Seem Society Taken
The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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Beautiful Figure Final Grasp Inessential Land Large Nobel Overcoat Prerogative Prize Scheme Thing Waste
Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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House Live never Write
You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Book Find Into Life Put
No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Do God Him Keep Long Mention No Sleeve Vicar
Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Children Closer Empire Grass Ground Now
And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Come Dead Down Hand Long Person Set Someone Your
A book, as it were, closes the book.
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As Book Close Were

The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.

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