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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.

Alan Bennett

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Behind Bucket Commentary Continue Follow History Incapability Men Various Women
I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Already Cater Dislike Domestic Instinct Respect Able Scope Understood
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
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
Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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Character Composite Figure Over People Play Social Succession Visit Worker Year
So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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Dozen Eventually Experience Extent Half History Own Try
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
Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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Cenotaph Commentary Concern Last Post Realise Something Stuff
We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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Down Mean No Past Period Recent Remote See
But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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Cambridge Decide Happen Headmaster Oxford Push Some Try
Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Already Book Confirm Decide Generally Just Perhaps Unwittingly
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
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
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Do Leisure Mean Nothing Purpose Some
…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
All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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All Effort Left Nothing Went

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