Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETTI tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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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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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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