Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
ALAN BENNETTThose who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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To begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
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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 was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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I had no idea of who could play it, no notion really. Then Richard came to see us but I don’t think it was decided at that meeting.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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