My experience came before most of you were born.
ALAN BENNETTIt’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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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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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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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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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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