We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
ALAN BENNETTNature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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