Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
ALAN BENNETTSo boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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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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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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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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