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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.

Alan Bennett

Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Between Bit Boy Chat Counter Fish Fryer Local Sale Some Under
Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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Can Coat Culminate Kindly Man Name Prime Minister Say Tell White
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
Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Book Live Other Pass Time World
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
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
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Glass Life Nobody Other Side Watch Whole
We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Chip Fetch Fish Market Place Settle Shop
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
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
But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Action Aure Book Buy Know Prompt Se; Dom
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
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
Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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Above Humanity Literature might One Queen Said Well
I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Mind Out Play Resolve Root Thing Write
I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Argument Coherent Fallible Good Incoherent Mouth People Play Precise Suit

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