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.
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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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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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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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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.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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