We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
ALAN BENNETTIf 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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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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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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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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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
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