I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
ALAN BENNETTOne of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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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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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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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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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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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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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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