Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
ALAN BENNETTWe started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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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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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
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