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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.

Alan Bennett

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
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
Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Children Closer Empire Grass Ground Now
They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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Dishwasher Empt Nativity Pen Play Round Saga Sainsbury Threat Trailing
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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Age Belong Breakfast Catch Father Husband Novelist Poet
Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Cruel Give Nature Paly Trick Waxed
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 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
Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Al Box Life Look Sadness Sky
You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Book Conviction Corroborate Have
Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Assume Book Classic Definition Everyone Often Read Think
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
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
And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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Away Can Distance Explain History Yourself
Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Call Course Date Out Standard
Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Always Date Makem Standard Standard

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