If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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 still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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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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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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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.
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