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
ALAN BENNETTWere we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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