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.
ALAN BENNETTOur perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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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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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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