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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.

Alan Bennett

…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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Chosen Felt Impossible Late Read She Stage Writer
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
If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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Being Born Find Go People Rose Sight Virginia Way Wool Yourself
Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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All Artist Celebrate Human Humanity Scarcely Turn
I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Happy Unhappy
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
Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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Done Kindness Nor Read Seem Think Write
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
You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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Entitle Knowledge Master Servant Superior
His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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Apartment Door Someone Sound Spent Wall Write
But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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Cambridge Decide Happen Headmaster Oxford Push Some Try
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 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
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Another Book Door Find Kept Open Process Turn
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
Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Always Date Makem Standard Standard

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