We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
ALAN BENNETTMy experience came before most of you were born.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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