Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETTHistory is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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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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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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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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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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