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Alan Bennett

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.
ALAN BENNETT

Condition Else Generally Kind Nothing Patient People Remember Wisdom
Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Always Course Date Make Out Standard
I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Explain Great Much Poet Significance Success Try
Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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Art Begin Come Form Imitate Parofy Process Voice
I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Just Need Rich Walk
f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Alec Been Born Business Instance Work
At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Eighty Occur Recur Thing
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
I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
ALAN BENNETT

Either Experience Forgotten Like Nobody People School
God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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Either Excuse God Jesus Christ Mote
Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT

Al Box Life Look Sadness Sky
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.
ALAN BENNETT

Dishwasher Empt Nativity Pen Play Round Saga Sainsbury Threat Trailing
It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Book Had Kind Library Only Raed
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
Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Between Bit Boy Chat Counter Fish Fryer Local Sale Some Under
Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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Education Long Pay Polly Right Sex Socialist

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