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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.

Alan Bennett

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According Article Daily Hard Left List Mall Playwright
We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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Down Mean No Past Period Recent Remote See
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
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
Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Book Bread Butter Finish Mash One Philosophy Plate Potato
At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Eighty Occur Recur Thing
Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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Country More Pass Time Want Wish
f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Alec Been Born Business Instance Work
So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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Dozen Eventually Experience Extent Half History Own Try
The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Announce Best Departure Liturgy Rad Someone Train Treat
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Do Leisure Mean Nothing Purpose Some
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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Debrief Know Memories Memory Ous Publicly
And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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Anticipate Historian Holocaust Period Perspective Remote
Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Discursive Invite Perpetual Raed Untidy
Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Detach Have Him never Nice Put Villa Word Write
All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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All Effort Left Nothing Went

Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.

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