Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
ALAN BENNETTWe still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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