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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.

Alan Bennett

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
I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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Blue Every Eye Know Length Look Loveliest Miner Seen Time Yet
So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Asleep Boring Fall Halfway Name Through
Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Call Course Date Out Standard
[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
It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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Go Like Out Pace Picture Reality Total Wipe
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
…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 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
Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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Assume Bottom Caning Dismiss Disqualify Dream Half Illogically Nation Schoolgirl Shy Work
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
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
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
I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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Anyway Found More Take Talk Time Well Write
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
I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Argument Coherent Fallible Good Incoherent Mouth People Play Precise Suit

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