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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.

Alan Bennett

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
Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Book Bought Finish Once Start Way
[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Antithesis Brief Fact Factual Point Raed Terse
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
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
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
A book, as it were, closes the book.
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As Book Close Were
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
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
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
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 can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Just Need Rich Walk
It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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Happen History Mood Something Subjunctive Use
Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Come Hard Left List Probably Right Soft Under
You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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Condition Else Generally Kind Nothing Patient People Remember Wisdom
So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Asleep Boring Fall Halfway Name Through

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