The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
ALAN BENNETTYou go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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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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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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