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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.

Alan Bennett

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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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Can Coat Culminate Kindly Name Prime Minister Say Tell White
I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.

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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Bald Both Child Homosexual Only Parent Twenty
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 More Only Unlikely
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 Some
My experience came before most of you were born.
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Before Came
Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.

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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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All Celebrate Scarcely
It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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Something Subjunctive Use
Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Hard Left List Probably Soft Under
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 Really Scholarship
Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Brief Down Invite Perpetually Raed Subject Up
There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.

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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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Adjustment Made Some Substance Through Van
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 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 Left Nothing Went
God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!

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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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Either Jesus Christ Mote
Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.

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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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Bottom Caning Dismiss Disqualify Half Illogically Schoolgirl Shy
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.

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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Anarchist Community Small
Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Else Know Own Something Sudk

Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.

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