It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
ALAN BENNETT[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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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