We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
ALAN BENNETTBut most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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