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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.

Alan Bennett

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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Humour Lavatory Mark Resort Society Wall Word Write
And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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Away Can Distance Explain History Yourself
They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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Dishwasher Empt Nativity Pen Play Round Saga Sainsbury Threat Trailing
Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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Cheer Himself I Lok Mirror Now People Skyline Use Winter
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Civilization Day End Know Other Pee Somebody Thought
One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Hardest Human One Learn Teacher Thing
You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Book Conviction Corroborate Have
Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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Can Coat Culminate Kindly Man Name Prime Minister Say Tell White
Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Between Bit Boy Chat Counter Fish Fryer Local Sale Some Under
My experience came before most of you were born.
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Before Born Came Experience
I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Control Expression Favor Free Kept Provide Rigid Under
Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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Alone Cistern Cold Full Loud Seat Sit Sixty
I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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Blue Every Eye Know Length Look Loveliest Miner Seen Time Yet
Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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House Live never Write
It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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Go Like Out Pace Picture Reality Total Wipe
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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Children Dicken Look never Put Quite

Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.

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