God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
ALAN BENNETTI’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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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.
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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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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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