So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
ALAN BENNETTI’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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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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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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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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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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