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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.

Alan Bennett

If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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Being Born Find Go People Rose Sight Virginia Way Wool Yourself
I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Call Character English Lack Mean Power Refrain
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
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
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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Book Device Ignite Imagination
It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Been Easie Follow Much Something Successful
…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
And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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Anticipate Historian Holocaust Period Perspective Remote
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Entire Microbe More Person Population World
I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Left Male National Park Serengeti White Wish
Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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Between Diminish Fart Imagine Impossible Person Proportion Space Time Whole Stoy
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Bookshelf Library Particular People Perform Stamp
I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Nijinsky Ballet Collaboration Excite Fruit More Only Person Remember Suppose Unlikely
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
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
I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Mind Out Play Resolve Root Thing Write

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