Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
ALAN BENNETTNature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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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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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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