I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
ALAN BENNETTMy experience came before most of you were born.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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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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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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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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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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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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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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