You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
ALAN BENNETTHad your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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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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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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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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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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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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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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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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