At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
ALAN BENNETTYou always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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