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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Alan Bennett

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
The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Day Enough Long Raed Want
My films are about embarrassment.
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Embarrassment Film
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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Age Belong Breakfast Catch Father Husband Novelist Poet
I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Argument Coherent Fallible Good Incoherent Mouth People Play Precise Suit
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
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?
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Civilization Day End Know Other Pee Somebody Thought
The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Announce Best Departure Liturgy Rad Someone Train Treat
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
We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Chip Fetch Fish Market Place Settle Shop
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
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
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
Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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Book Commonwealth Equal Herself Literature Read Reader Republic
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
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

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