Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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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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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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