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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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Done Kindness Nor Read Seem Think Write
My films are about embarrassment.
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Embarrassment Film
So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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Dozen Eventually Experience Extent Half History Own Try
But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Men Most Poem Regard Threaten Women
If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Pity Reality Really Sum Suppose Talk Work
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
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 longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Case Convince Involve Longer Medicine More Practice Trouser Two Type
It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Been Easie Follow Much Something Successful
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
Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Already Book Confirm Decide Generally Just Perhaps Unwittingly
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.
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Breed Class Die Good Like Literature never People Practitioner Run School Snobbery Thread Violence
Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Discursive Invite Perpetual Raed Untidy
To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Begin Read Some Trepidation True Unease
No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Do God Him Keep Long Mention No Sleeve Vicar
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

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