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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Bennett

Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Always Intelligent People Socialist
Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Bore Cancer Like One Liner Otehrillness
One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Hardest Human One Learn Teacher Thing
So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Asleep Boring Fall Halfway Name Through
I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Just Need Rich Walk
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
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Another Book Door Find Kept Open Process Turn
You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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Condition Else Generally Kind Nothing Patient People Remember Wisdom
The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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Breed Class Die Good Like Literature never People Practitioner Run School Snobbery Thread Violence
But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Balck Cambridge Contrast Day Fairstory Frost Hard Leed Seem Something Sooty Wonderful
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
Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Else Fall Know Own Remember Something Sudk
I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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Blue Eye Live Perhaps Remind Think
Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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Bible Mean never Nor Prayer Rate Read Something
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
Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Franklin Garland Memories Shackles

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