To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
ALAN BENNETTMemories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
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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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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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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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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.
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