The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
ALAN BENNETTClichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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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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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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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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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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