We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
ALAN BENNETTDeluded 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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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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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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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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It 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.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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