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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.

Alan Bennett

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
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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Age Belong Breakfast Catch Father Husband Novelist Poet
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
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
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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Adjustment Fact Lady Little Made Some Substance Through Van
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
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Bookshelf Library Particular People Perform Stamp
[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.
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Context Explain Holocaust Say Something Step Talking Toward Understand
Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Bible Mean never Nor Prayer Rate Read Something
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
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
I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Left Male National Park Serengeti White Wish
My experience came before most of you were born.
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Before Born Came Experience
If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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Assure Broadway Exactly Film Instance Made Same Show Understand
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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Explain Future Gone Imagine Incident Increase Larger Mention Number
What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
ALAN BENNETT

Above Concern Pith Primarily Reality Substance

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