It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
ALAN BENNETTWhat I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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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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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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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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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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