God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
ALAN BENNETTHave you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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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.
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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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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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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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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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