I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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The 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.
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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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 dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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