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.
ALAN BENNETTMemories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, ‘I am Mrs de Winter now!
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