But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
ALAN BENNETTWhy do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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