It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
ALAN BENNETTSo boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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You 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.
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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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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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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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