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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.

Alan Bennett

The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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Busk Exam Expect Ide Master Really Scholarship
The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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Beautiful Figure Final Grasp Inessential Land Large Nobel Overcoat Prerogative Prize Scheme Thing Waste
It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Been Cambridge Grail Holy never Sense
Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Clitch Fun Got Quite
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
To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Begin Read Some Trepidation True Unease
If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Pity Reality Really Sum Suppose Talk Work
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
I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Civilization Day End Know Other Pee Somebody Thought
[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Antithesis Brief Fact Factual Point Raed Terse
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
The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Day Enough Long Raed Want
Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Always Date Makem Standard Standard
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
The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Done Go Next Once Start Think
The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Across Best Come Feel Look Moment Raed Something Special Particular Thought

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