I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
ALAN BENNETTI’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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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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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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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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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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