Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETTMemories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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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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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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