I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
ALAN BENNETTStandards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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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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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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