The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
ALAN BENNETTIt was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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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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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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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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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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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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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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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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