Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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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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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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