Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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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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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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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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