Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
ALAN BENNETTArtists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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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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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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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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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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