I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
ALAN BENNETTIt was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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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.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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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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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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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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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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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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