Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
ALAN BENNETT
You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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