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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

Alan Bennett

Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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Can Coat Culminate Kindly Man Name Prime Minister Say Tell White
The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Announce Best Departure Liturgy Rad Someone Train Treat
Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Clitch Fun Got 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
Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Already Book Confirm Decide Generally Just Perhaps Unwittingly
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
The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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Busk Exam Expect Ide Master Really Scholarship
If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Pity Reality Really Sum Suppose Talk Work
[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Antithesis Brief Fact Factual Point Raed Terse
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
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
Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Always Intelligent People Socialist
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
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
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
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

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