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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.

Alan Bennett

I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
ALAN BENNETT

Except Land Meet never Point Sea Seen Shore
Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Always Course Date Make Out Standard
Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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Key Life Look Rather Sardine Tin
To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Begin Read Some Trepidation True Unease
I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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Anyway Found More Take Talk Time Well Write
It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Been Cambridge Grail Holy never Sense
Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Book Live Other Pass Time World
Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Add Ever Headmaster Little might Out Perhaps Standard Thought
Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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All Artist Celebrate Human Humanity Scarcely Turn
I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Nijinsky Ballet Collaboration Excite Fruit More Only Person Remember Suppose Unlikely
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
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
I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Call Character English Lack Mean Power Refrain
The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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Another Book Endlessness Idea Lead Outface Raed Same Sheer System Time
To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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Make Oneself Read Unavailable Withdraw
My experience came before most of you were born.
ALAN BENNETT

Before Born Came Experience

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