I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
ALAN BENNETTLife is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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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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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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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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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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