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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.

Alan Bennett

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
Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Always Intelligent People Socialist
They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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Dishwasher Empt Nativity Pen Play Round Saga Sainsbury Threat Trailing
Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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Country More Pass Time Want Wish
The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Anybody Chosen Else Night Obscure Somebody Soon Thought Trouble
I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Could Decide Idea Meet Notion Really Think
The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Across Best Come Feel Look Moment Raed Something Special Particular Thought
There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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Better Play Conscious Film Good No Often Raed Script Such Thing
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
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
Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Al Box Life Look Sadness Sky
What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Above Concern Pith Primarily Reality Substance
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
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Do Leisure Mean Nothing Purpose Some
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
Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Congo Country Credit Derive Hull Larkin Live More People

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