Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
ALAN BENNETTAt eighty things do not occur; they recur.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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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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