We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
ALAN BENNETTI have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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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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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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