The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
ALAN BENNETTI’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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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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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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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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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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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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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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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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