Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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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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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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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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