The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
ALAN BENNETTIt seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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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 must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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