Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
ALAN BENNETTYou always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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