Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
ALAN BENNETTOne 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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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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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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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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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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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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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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