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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.

Alan Bennett

Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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Education Long Pay Polly Right Sex Socialist
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Entire Microbe More Person Population World
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
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
Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Call Course Date Out Standard
A book, as it were, closes the book.
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As Book Close Were
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
That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Across Ask Bid Crawl Malvern Perier Prefer Sahara Water
I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Nijinsky Ballet Collaboration Excite Fruit More Only Person Remember Suppose Unlikely
I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Bald Both Child Homosexual Only Parent Time Twenty
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
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
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
But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Men Most Poem Regard Threaten Women
And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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Away Can Distance Explain History Yourself

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