So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
ALAN BENNETTSchweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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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 write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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