But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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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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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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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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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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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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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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