We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
ALAN BENNETTYou go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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