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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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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Begin Read Some Trepidation True Unease
…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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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
Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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[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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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
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

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