The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
ALAN BENNETTIt’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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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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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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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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