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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.

Alan Bennett

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
One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Duty Pleasure Public Raed
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 started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Anarchist Community Obey People Rule Small Start Try
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Book Device Ignite Imagination
Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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Done Kindness Nor Read Seem Think Write
Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Children Closer Empire Grass Ground Now
I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Bet Depute Doubt Stoppard Underling
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
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
Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Book Bread Butter Finish Mash One Philosophy Plate Potato
Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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Book Commonwealth Equal Herself Literature Read Reader Republic
God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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Either Excuse God Jesus Christ Mote
At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Eighty Occur Recur Thing
Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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House Live never Write
…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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Chosen Felt Impossible Late Read She Stage Writer
The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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Crise Majority People Perform Spotlight Them
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
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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Deluded Entire Fellow Goldy Liberal More Ought Persist Sexual Sober Streak Think Unorthodoxy
Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Elsewhere Generally Happen Life Something
If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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Assure Broadway Exactly Film Instance Made Same Show Understand
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’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Control Expression Favor Free Kept Provide Rigid Under
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
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Glass Life Nobody Other Side Watch Whole
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
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

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