There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
ALAN BENNETTNever read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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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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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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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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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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