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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

Alan Bennett

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
ALAN BENNETT

Make Oneself Read Unavailable Withdraw
I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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Blue Every Eye Know Length Look Loveliest Miner Seen Time Yet
Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
ALAN BENNETT

Education Long Pay Polly Right Sex Socialist
It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Been Cambridge Grail Holy never Sense
Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Ancient Cold Confuse Country Learn Library Smell Stone
I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Nijinsky Ballet Collaboration Excite Fruit More Only Person Remember Suppose Unlikely
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
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
ALAN BENNETT

Alone Cistern Cold Full Loud Seat Sit Sixty
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
Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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Cenotaph Commentary Concern Last Post Realise Something Stuff
If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
ALAN BENNETT

Activity Arrange Competitive Flower Squash Think
One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Duty Pleasure Public Raed
But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Action Aure Book Buy Know Prompt Se; Dom
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
Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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House Live never Write
We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
ALAN BENNETT

Chip Fetch Fish Market Place Settle Shop

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