Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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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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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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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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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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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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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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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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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