But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
ALAN BENNETTCancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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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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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date.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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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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