Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETTIf I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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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You 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.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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