Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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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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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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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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