At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
ALAN BENNETTKafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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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 bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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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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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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