Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
ALAN BENNETTIt’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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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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The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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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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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made.
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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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Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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