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.
ALAN BENNETTI turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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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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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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