Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
ALAN BENNETTOf course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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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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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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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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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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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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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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