You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
ALAN BENNETTTo play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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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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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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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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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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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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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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