God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
ALAN BENNETTIf I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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