The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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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.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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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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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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