And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
ALAN BENNETTWhy do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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