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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Alan Bennett

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Across Best Come Feel Look Moment Raed Something Special Particular Thought
Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Book Live Other Pass Time World
All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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All Effort Left Nothing Went
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
I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Could Decide Idea Meet Notion Really Think
Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Always Course Date Make Out Standard
A book, as it were, closes the book.
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As Book Close Were
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Book Device Ignite Imagination
One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Duty Pleasure Public Raed
One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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Add Bottom Entitlement Happiness Note One Position Recipe Sense Star
Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Book Live Other Pass Time World
Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Al Box Life Look Sadness Sky
I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Just Need Rich Walk
A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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Every Forget Lest Mantlepiece Mourn Much Photograph Remember Veiled
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
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

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

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