I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
ALAN BENNETTI can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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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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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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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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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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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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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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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