Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
ALAN BENNETTBut most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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