Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
ALAN BENNETTDeluded 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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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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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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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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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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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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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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