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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.

Alan Bennett

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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Art Begin Come Form Imitate Parofy Process Voice
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
I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Already Cater Dislike Domestic Instinct Respect Able Scope Understood
One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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Add Bottom Entitlement Happiness Note One Position Recipe Sense Star
So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Asleep Boring Fall Halfway Name Through
Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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Alter Back Dead Front Ground Immediately Look One Past Perspective
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
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
Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Clitch Fun Got Quite
Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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
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
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
The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Across Best Come Feel Look Moment Raed Something Special Particular Thought
One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Duty Pleasure Public Raed
You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Book Conviction Corroborate Have
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

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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