Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
ALAN BENNETTThose who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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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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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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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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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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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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