One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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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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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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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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