It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
ALAN BENNETTA book is a device to ignite the imagination.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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