To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
ALAN BENNETTBut then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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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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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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