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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.

Alan Bennett

Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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Alone Cistern Cold Full Loud Seat Sit Sixty
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
You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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Entitle Knowledge Master Servant Superior
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Bookshelf Library Particular People Perform Stamp
[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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Context Explain Holocaust Say Something Step Talking Toward Understand
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
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
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
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
Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Cruel Give Nature Paly Trick Waxed
Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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Key Life Look Rather Sardine Tin
Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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Explain Future Gone Imagine Incident Increase Larger Mention Number
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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Age Belong Breakfast Catch Father Husband Novelist Poet
Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Book Bought Finish Once Start Way
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
History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Behind Bucket Commentary Continue Follow History Incapability Men Various Women

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