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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.

Alan Bennett

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
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Appear Indifference Literature Read Something Through Underfy
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
We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Chip Fetch Fish Market Place Settle Shop
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 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
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
I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Could Decide Idea Meet Notion Really Think
Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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Human People Proceed Procreate Race Standard Stupid
One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Duty Pleasure Public Raed
The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Announce Best Departure Liturgy Rad Someone Train Treat
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
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
One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Hardest Human One Learn Teacher Thing
You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Book Conviction Corroborate Have
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

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