Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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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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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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