Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETTOf course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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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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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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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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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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Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader’s imagination as the characters in their books.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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