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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.

Alan Bennett

I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Control Expression Favor Free Kept Provide Rigid Under
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.
ALAN BENNETT

Balck Cambridge Contrast Day Fairstory Frost Hard Leed Seem Something Sooty Wonderful
Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Add Ever Headmaster Little might Out Perhaps Standard Thought
And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Come Dead Down Hand Long Person Set Someone Your
One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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Hardest Learn Not One Teacher Tell Them Thing Try
Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
ALAN BENNETT

Humour Lavatory Mark Resort Society Wall Word Write
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
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
ALAN BENNETT

Anarchist Community Obey People Rule Small Start Try
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
If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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Being Born Find Go People Rose Sight Virginia Way Wool Yourself
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
Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Cruel Give Nature Paly Trick Waxed
Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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Country More Pass Time Want Wish
One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
ALAN BENNETT

Add Bottom Entitlement Happiness Note One Position Recipe Sense Star
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 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

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