Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
ALAN BENNETTI wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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