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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.

Alan Bennett

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
History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Behind Bucket Commentary Continue Follow History Incapability Men Various Women
I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Control Expression Favor Free Kept Provide Rigid Under
I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Either Experience Forgotten Like Nobody People School
The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Day Enough Long Raed Want
Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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Art Begin Come Form Imitate Parofy Process Voice
Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Come Hard Left List Probably Right Soft Under
I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Mind Out Play Resolve Root Thing Write
I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Bet Depute Doubt Stoppard Underling
But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Men Most Poem Regard Threaten Women
At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Eighty Occur Recur Thing
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
The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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Crise Majority People Perform Spotlight Them
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
Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Cloth Minister Owner Physician Religion Remember

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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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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