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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.

Alan Bennett

And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Come Dead Down Hand Long Person Set Someone Your
To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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Could Form Homeopathy Life Mine Play Pursuit Trival
If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Activity Arrange Competitive Flower Squash Think
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
Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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House Live never Write
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
I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Left Male National Park Serengeti White Wish
It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Earth Face Mind One See Species
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
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
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
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
One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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Hardest Learn Not One Teacher Tell Them Thing 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
Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Bore Cancer Like One Liner Otehrillness
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

Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.

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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.

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