Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
ALAN BENNETTI was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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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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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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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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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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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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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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