Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
ALAN BENNETTKnowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as 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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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But then, when I did go, the contrast between Leeds, which was very black and sooty in those days, and Cambridge, which seemed like something out of a fairystory, in the grip of a hard frost, was just wonderful.
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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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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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