Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there’s no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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