But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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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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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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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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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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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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