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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.

Alan Bennett

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Congo Country Credit Derive Hull Larkin Live More People
It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Book Had Kind Library Only Raed
But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Men Most Poem Regard Threaten Women
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’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Happy Unhappy
Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Book Bread Butter Finish Mash One Philosophy Plate Potato
I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Control Expression Freedom Give Strict
Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Call Course Date Out Standard
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
The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Anybody Chosen Else Night Obscure Somebody Soon Thought Trouble
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
It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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Go Like Out Pace Picture Reality Total Wipe
I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Either Experience Forgotten Like Nobody People School
A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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Every Forget Lest Mantlepiece Mourn Much Photograph Remember Veiled
We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Admit Die Fault Many Partly People So Still War
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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Children Dicken Look never Put Quite

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