Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
ALAN BENNETTSometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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