There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
ALAN BENNETTThere are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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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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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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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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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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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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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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