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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.

Alan Bennett

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
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
The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Day Enough Long Raed Want
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
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
I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Call Character English Lack Mean Power Refrain
It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Earth Face Mind One See Species
The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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Alcohol Communion Effect Holy Near Overestimate Parent Utterly
And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Come Dead Down Hand Long Person Set Someone Your
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
But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Men Most Poem Regard Threaten Women
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
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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Certain Civilize Education Grant Privilege Seem Society Taken
That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Across Ask Bid Crawl Malvern Perier Prefer Sahara Water
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
Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Book Live Other Pass Time World

You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.

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