God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
ALAN BENNETTI’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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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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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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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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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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