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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

Alan Bennett

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Glass Life Nobody Other Side Watch Whole
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
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
…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
Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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House Live never Write
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
I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Mind Out Play Resolve Root Thing Write
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
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
Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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Art Begin Come Form Imitate Parofy Process Voice
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
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
To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Begin Read Some Trepidation True Unease
It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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Happen History Mood Something Subjunctive Use
Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Always Intelligent People Socialist

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