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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?

Alan Bennett

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
Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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Humour Lavatory Mark Resort Society Wall Word Write
Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Book Bought Finish Once Start Way
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Explain Great Much Poet Significance Success Try
Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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Key Life Look Rather Sardine Tin
f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Alec Been Born Business Instance Work
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
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Appear Indifference Literature Read Something Through Underfy
I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Except Land Meet never Point Sea Seen Shore
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
All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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All Effort Left Nothing Went
I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Just Need Rich Walk
Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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Alone Cistern Cold Full Loud Seat Sit Sixty
You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Book Conviction Corroborate Have
The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Day Enough Long Raed Want
The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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Beautiful Figure Final Grasp Inessential Land Large Nobel Overcoat Prerogative Prize Scheme Thing Waste

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