My experience came before most of you were born.
ALAN BENNETTI have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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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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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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