That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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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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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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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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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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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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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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