I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
ALAN BENNETT
Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
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Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don’t try and mean it. Nor prayers.
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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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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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…she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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