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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.

Alan Bennett

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
ALAN BENNETT

Book Device Ignite Imagination
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
We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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Down Mean No Past Period Recent Remote See
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
Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Detach Have Him never Nice Put Villa Word Write
And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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Away Can Distance Explain History Yourself
And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Come Dead Down Hand Long Person Set Someone Your
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
Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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Education Long Pay Polly Right Sex Socialist
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Do Leisure Mean Nothing Purpose Some
Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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Explain Future Gone Imagine Incident Increase Larger Mention Number
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
Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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Deluded Entire Fellow Goldy Liberal More Ought Persist Sexual Sober Streak Think Unorthodoxy
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
Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Cruel Give Nature Paly Trick Waxed
Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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Author Best Character Creature Decide Imagination Met Much Novel Page Probably Reader Soon

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