Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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