So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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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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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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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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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