There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
ALAN BENNETTKnowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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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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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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