But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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