Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETTA book, as it were, closes the book.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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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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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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