If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
ALAN BENNETTI wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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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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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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