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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.

Alan Bennett

Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Acknowledge Care Cattle Count Foo
I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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Besides Director Down Hierarchy More Piss Place Quite Really Risky Think Took Writer
Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Book Live Other Pass Time World
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
My experience came before most of you were born.
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Before Born Came Experience
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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Children Dicken Look never Put Quite
I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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Blue Eye Live Perhaps Remind Think
So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Asleep Boring Fall Halfway Name Through
Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Brief Close Down Invite Open Perpetually Raed Subject Up
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Chance never Next Now Out Sometimes Time
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
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Glass Life Nobody Other Side Watch Whole
At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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Bent Block Coat Drabber Excrement Hanger Insane Life Moment Root Some Step Swill
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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Done Go Next Once Start Think
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
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

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