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.
ALAN BENNETTIt’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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