I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
ALAN BENNETTChildren always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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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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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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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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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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