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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.

Alan Bennett

I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
ALAN BENNETT

Happy Unhappy
Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Clitch Fun Got Quite
However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Church Incapable Journey Return Sacrament Weather
I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Bald Both Child Homosexual Only Parent Time Twenty
They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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Dishwasher Empt Nativity Pen Play Round Saga Sainsbury Threat Trailing
Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Congo Country Credit Derive Hull Larkin Live More People
It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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Go Like Out Pace Picture Reality Total Wipe
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
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
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
The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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Another Book Endlessness Idea Lead Outface Raed Same Sheer System Time
What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Above Concern Pith Primarily Reality Substance
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
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
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
You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Book Conviction Corroborate Have

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