Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
ALAN BENNETTWhat I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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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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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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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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