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

Alan Bennett

Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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Can Coat Culminate Kindly Man Name Prime Minister Say Tell White
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
I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Argument Coherent Fallible Good Incoherent Mouth People Play Precise Suit
Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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Done Kindness Nor Read Seem Think Write
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
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
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
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
It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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Certain Civilize Education Grant Privilege Seem Society Taken
[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
Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Clitch Fun Got Quite
Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Franklin Garland Memories Shackles
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Civilization Day End Know Other Pee Somebody Thought
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
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Chance never Next Now Out Sometimes Time
I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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Blue Every Eye Know Length Look Loveliest Miner Seen Time Yet

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