Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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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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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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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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