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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.

Alan Bennett

I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Control Expression Freedom Give Strict
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
You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Book Find Into Life Put
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
Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Detach Have Him never Nice Put Villa Word Write
Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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Cheer Himself I Lok Mirror Now People Skyline Use Winter
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
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
The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Case Convince Involve Longer Medicine More Practice Trouser Two Type
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
Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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Author Best Character Creature Decide Imagination Met Much Novel Page Probably Reader Soon
I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Just Need Rich Walk
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
I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Could Decide Idea Meet Notion Really Think
The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Done Go Next Once Start Think
What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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Above Concern Pith Primarily Reality Substance

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