We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
ALAN BENNETTSo boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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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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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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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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