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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.

Alan Bennett

…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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Chosen Felt Impossible Late Read She Stage Writer
Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Discursive Invite Perpetual Raed Untidy
If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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Being Born Find Go People Rose Sight Virginia Way Wool Yourself
Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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Between Diminish Fart Imagine Impossible Person Proportion Space Time Whole Stoy
The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Case Convince Involve Longer Medicine More Practice Trouser Two Type
It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Earth Face Mind One See Species
You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Book Conviction Corroborate Have
His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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Apartment Door Someone Sound Spent Wall Write
You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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Always Anything Apart Arrive By Car Cycle Go Good Know Mood Prefer
A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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Every Forget Lest Mantlepiece Mourn Much Photograph Remember Veiled
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
Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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Human People Proceed Procreate Race Standard Stupid
Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Cruel Give Nature Paly Trick Waxed
To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Begin Read Some Trepidation True Unease
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
The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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Busk Exam Expect Ide Master Really Scholarship

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