To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
ALAN BENNETTIf you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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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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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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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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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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