So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
ALAN BENNETTIt was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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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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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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