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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.

Alan Bennett

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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Could Form Homeopathy Life Mine Play Pursuit Trival
In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Artist Background Blueprint Circumstance Everything Particular Possible Transcend Want Way
Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Book Live Other Pass Time World
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
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
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
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
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
We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Admit Die Fault Many Partly People So Still War
Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Franklin Garland Memories Shackles
Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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Character Composite Figure Over People Play Social Succession Visit Worker Year
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
Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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Country More Pass Time Want Wish
A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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Proprietor Composite Made Neighbour People Publisher Remembrance Though Too
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
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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Children Dicken Look never Put Quite

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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