I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
ALAN BENNETTClichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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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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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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