Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
ALAN BENNETTThe longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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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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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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