All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
ALAN BENNETTI’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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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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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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