We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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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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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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