At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
ALAN BENNETTClichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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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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