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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.

Alan Bennett

Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Bible Mean never Nor Prayer Rate Read Something
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
An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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According Article Daily Hard Left List Mall Playwright
The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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Beautiful Figure Final Grasp Inessential Land Large Nobel Overcoat Prerogative Prize Scheme Thing Waste
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
To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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Make Oneself Read Unavailable Withdraw
You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Book Find Into Life Put
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
At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Eighty Occur Recur Thing
No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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Do God Him Keep Long Mention No Sleeve Vicar
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
But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Balck Cambridge Contrast Day Fairstory Frost Hard Leed Seem Something Sooty Wonderful
Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Brief Close Down Invite Open Perpetually Raed Subject Up
Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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Key Life Look Rather Sardine Tin
I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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Day Down Have Knighthood Life Suit Turn Wear
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

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.

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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.

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